Patterns in XSLT

[Michael Kragh Pedersen]

Is it not possible to use ?: in your group expressions in XSLT patterns,
like it is for example in JavaScript?

Michael K. P.

 

[Martin Honnen]

Is it not possible to use ?: in your group expressions in XSLT patterns,
like it is for example in JavaScript?

Certainly not in XSLT 1.0/XPath 1.0.

XPath 2.0 has
<http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#id-conditionals>
so there you can write
if (testExpression) then expression1 else expression2
similar to Javascript's
testExpression ? expression1 : expression2

I haven't checked whether that would then be allowed inside of an XSLT
2.0 pattern.

 

[Michael Kragh Pedersen]

Certainly not in XSLT 1.0/XPath 1.0.

XPath 2.0 has
<http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#id-conditionals>
so there you can write
if (testExpression) then expression1 else expression2
similar to Javascript's
testExpression ? expression1 : expression2

I haven't checked whether that would then be allowed inside of an XSLT
2.0 pattern.

Well, that's not what I mean, actually I was talking about the pattern
tag. In JavaScript, you can use ?: in regular expressions.

 

[Martin Honnen]

actually I was talking about the pattern
tag. In JavaScript, you can use ?: in regular expressions.

But XSLT 1.0/XPath 1.0 doesn't have regular expressions at all so I am
not sure what you are looking for.

Or are you asking about XSLT 2.0/XPath 2.0?

 

[Michael Kragh Pedersen]

But XSLT 1.0/XPath 1.0 doesn't have regular expressions at all so I am
not sure what you are looking for.

Or are you asking about XSLT 2.0/XPath 2.0?

Well, if only XSLT has regular expressions, it must be the one, Im
using, so yes