[osis-core] osisWork regex in XMetaL

[Harry Plantinga]

Luke,

Would you please email the schema, document, and a description of the
problem to support at softquad?

Also, it's a good idea to try using [a-zA-Z0-9_] instead of the big OR
expression in the regex.

-Harry


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org 
> [mailto:owner-osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org] On Behalf Of 
> Patrick Durusau
> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 2:39 PM
> To: osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
> Cc: 'Luke Baker'
> Subject: Re: [osis-core] osisWork regex in XMetaL
> 
> 
> Harry,
> 
> Before you hack the schema, submit a bug report to SoftQuad. 
> It may be 
> that the version of XMetal you have does not support regexes?
> 
> One possible problem may be the support for the escaped character 
> classes. To test, make a backup copy of the schema and insert 
> [a-z][A-Z][0-9] _ where I have the character class escapes (marked by 
> \p[L], etc.
> 
> Patrick
> 
> Harry Plantinga wrote:
> 
> >As near as we can figure, there is something wrong
> >with XMetaL which prevents it from accepting much of
> >anything for an osisWork using the given regex. In
> >particular, Todd's valid document doesn't validate
> >in XMetaL, which claims that the osisWork doesn't
> >match the regex.
> >
> >I guess we'll have to hack our copy of the schema
> >to try to come up with a regex that works with XMetaL.
> >
> >-Harry
> >
> 
> -- 
> Patrick Durusau
> Director of Research and Development
> Society of Biblical Literature
> pdurusau@emory.edu
> 
> 
>