Re: [xml-dev] XML Schema 1.1 xpath 2.0 regex question

[Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>]

`\n` in XPath (hosted in XML) doesn't represent a newline character. For a newline character, write `&#xa;`.

Michael Kay

Saxonica

On 22 Dec 2021, at 09:11, Mukul Gandhi <mukulg@softwarebytes.org> wrote:

Hi all,

   I've following question, related to this topic.

Within an XSD 1.1 schema, I've following asserts,

<xs:assert test="matches('j', '.')"/>
<xs:assert test="matches('\n', '.')"/>
<xs:assert test="matches('\r', '.')"/>

Both Xerces, and Saxon say that the asserts above return true result (i.e all the matches succeed).

The XSD 1.1 data types spec within the section "G.4.2.5 Multi-character escapes" says,

For character sequence . , the equivalent character class is [^\n\r] (which as I can understand means, any character except \n and \r). Therefore, shouldn't the 2nd and 3rd asserts above return false result?

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Regards,

Mukul Gandhi