Re: Bug: whitespace at beginning of regex fails the regex when in 'x' (ignore whitespace) mode

> -----Original Message-----
> From: saxon-help-bounces@...
> [mailto:saxon-help-bounces@...] On Behalf
> Of Abel Braaksma
> Sent: 22 December 2006 11:29
> To: Mailing list for SAXON XSLT queries
> Subject: [saxon] Bug: whitespace at beginning of regex fails
> the regex when in 'x' (ignore whitespace) mode
>
> Hi all,
>
> Using xsl:analyze-string and applying the flag 'x',
> whitespace in a regular expression should be ignored, with
> the exception of whitespace in character classes. The
> following XSLT template prints "NOT FOUND" only.
>
>     <xsl:template match="/">
>         <xsl:analyze-string select=" 'abc' " regex=" a" flags="x">
>             <xsl:matching-substring>FOUND</xsl:matching-substring>
>             <xsl:non-matching-substring>NOT
> FOUND</xsl:non-matching-substring>
>         </xsl:analyze-string>
>     </xsl:template>
>
>
> I believe this is in error. Whitespace inside the regular
> expression and
> whitespace at the end of the expression is correctly ignored
> by the parser.
>
> Cheers,
> -- Abel Braaksma
>    http://www.nuntia.nl
>
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