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Re: Re: A question about the expressive power and limitations of XPath 2.0
David,
>> We would have to address here the problem that Marc pointed out to do
>> with how repeated subexpressions are captured...
>
> probably you'd just have to do whatever perl does with the meaning of
> numbered subterms that are repeated.
Apparently that's "capture the last one". So if you had:
match('bar', '(.){3}')
then the first subexpression would have the value 'r'.
I can see why that's the case - otherwise you wouldn't be able to
predictably access matched subexpressions after that one by number.
Cheers,
Jeni
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