Re: [basex-talk] BaseX supporting 'lookahead' and 'lookbehind' regular expressions

Hi,

Am 15.05.2014 14:05, schrieb the joj:

I am trying to use 'lookahead' and 'lookbehind' regular expressions with BaseX With no success. [...] I fear that BaseX does not support these options

this is correct. The regular expressions supported by the XQuery standard [1] (and thus BaseX) do not support zero-width assertions. You can find a description of the available features at the same website you pointed out [2].

Hope that helps, Leo

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#regex-syntax [2] http://www.regular-expressions.info/xpath.html