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An OSGi bundle for Saxon-HE

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Package overview: net.sf.saxon.regexp


  
    This package contains the code to map XML Schema and XPath regular expressions
    to a regular expression engine of the underlying Java platform.

    Most of the classes implement a regular expression derived from Apache's Jakarta
    project. The code of Jakarta has been modified so that the regular expressions implement
    the syntax of XSD/XPath regular expressions.

    In addition, there are classes to provide direct access to the native JDK
    regular expression engine. The flags value ";j" may be used to select this
    engine. The resulting syntax/semantics will not be an exact match to the XPath
    definition.
    
    Users should not normally need to use these classes directly.
    
    Earlier versions of Saxon included a translator from XPath regular expressions
       to Java regular expressions, based on that produced by James Clark. This
       mechanism is no longer used.