I'm not going to start debugging this kind of regex for people. But the "$"
at the end, and the absense of any upper-case letters, look pretty dubious.

Michael Kay 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ragulf Pickaxe [mailto:jawxml@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 19 April 2004 09:31
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE:  Converting embedded URLs int hot links via XSL
> 
> 
> >tokenize seems about right, to find the preceding and 
> following strings,
> >which may then be used in substring before and after to 
> extract the needed
> >string.
> >
> >but saxon 7.9.1 seems not to match using
> >
> ><xsl:template match="/vs/url">
> >   <xsl:message>
> >   <xsl:for-each select="tokenize (.,
> >'(http|https|ftp)://((([a-z_0-9\-]+)+(([:]?)+([a-z_0-9\-]+))?
)(@+)?)?(((((([
> >0-1])?([0-9])?[0-9])|(2[0-4][0-9])|(2[0-5][0-5]))).(((([0-1])
> ?([0-9])?[0-9])
> >|(2[0-4][0-9])|(2[0-5][0-5]))).(((([0-1])?([0-9])?[0-9])|(2[0
> -4][0-9])|(2[0-
> >5][0-5])))\.(((([0-1])?([0-9])?[0-9])|(2[0-4][0-9])|(2[0-5][0
> -5]))))|((([a-z
> >0-9\-])+.)+([a-z]{2}.[a-z]{2}|[a-z]{2,4})))(([:])(([1-9]{1}[0
-9]{1,3})|([1-5
> >]{1}[0-9]{2,4})|(6[0-5]{2}[0-3][0-6])))?(/)?$')">
> >     <xsl:value-of select="."/><xsl:text>
> >     ========
> ></xsl:text>
> >   </xsl:for-each>
> ></xsl:message>
> >
> ></xsl:template>
> >
> >only printing out the full string.
> 
> Well, bug or should be used differently? Only M. Kay can tell.
> 
> >
> >I'm also curious how I might add (escape) the single or 
> double quotes prior
> >to the
> >url in the example.
> >http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#nt-Punctuation seems not 
> to include 
> >these?
> >
> 
> Can't help you there - regular expressions par se gives no 
> special meaning 
> to single nor double quotes, so it is an issue in XSLT - and 
> I expect you to 
> be better at that, than me.
> 
> >
> >regards DaveP
> >
> 
> Regards,
> Ragulf Pickaxe :-)
> 
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