• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 22:11:23 +0100

On 02/07/2012 22:06, Mike Sokolov wrote:
> Can anybody explain to me why the comment subexpression wouldn't just
> swallow an entire document like this:

you are right, it would (assuming the regexp dialect being used has the 
usual longest match semantic).


([^><]+)            # xml text

isn't right either as > is allowed in xml text.

David


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