Re: atoms, molecules

[ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)]

"Jonathan Borden" <jborden@mediaone.net> writes:

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> I'm not sure I need this facility in XML Schema per se, what I would really
> like is an XSLT/XPath regular expression function to include variable
> bindings. Recursive parsing or character data in XSLT is a fairly ugly
> proposition at the moment, but something that is frequently needed in
> practical applications.

Hear, hear!  This is a much better idea than jamming microparsing into 
XML Schema.  Fits with the general 'sender/author must make right'
approach, too.

ht
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