xml:grep (was Re: Why XML data typing is hard)

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 4:00 PM -0500 12/1/98, Joel Bender wrote:
> Supporting grep content pattern matching doesn't
> seem like it would be any more difficult than namespaces, kinda like...

	In order to support the WORLD WIDE web properly - it's a MUCH 
harder problem, especially when dealing with Unicode (which is the 
default for XML data).

	See Techinical Report 18 by the Unicode Consortium, "Unicode 
Regular Expression Guidelines" at 
<http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr18/>.


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