1363 2005-05-11 04:56:28 +0000 please clarify the role of flags, collation tables, mapping tables 2005-09-29 10:57:29 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified XPath / XQuery / XSLT Functions and Operators 1.0 Last Call drafts PC Windows XP CLOSED INVALID P2 normal --- 1484 1 fsasaki ashok.malhotra public-qt-comments oldest_to_newest 3496 0 fsasaki 2005-05-11 04:56:28 +0000 http://www.w3.org/International/2005/02/xq-func-op-review.html Comment ID: 12 3372 1 mike 2005-05-11 08:38:26 +0000 We have always taken the view that (a) regular expression processing is not intended for analysis of natural language text (that's the job of the free-text search capabilities). It's intended for low level manipulation of character patterns, and if the user wants to use it for example to parse dates, they need to define exactly what the formats of the dates to be handled are. Thus a pattern such as [a-j] should mean exactly what it says (a set of 10 Unicode codepoints), and should not include a-umlaut, for example, just because the user is in a locale where a-umlaut collates between a and j. If the user wants to include a-umlaut then they should say so. (b) we're not prepared to push the state of the art in regular expression theory or practice. We're picking up proven technology here, it would be too risky to try to invent anything new. Michael Kay (personal response) 3046 2 fsasaki 2005-05-25 05:49:00 +0000 (consensus of i18n-core-wg, telecon 25 may 2005): We have reached consensus on removing this comment.