Must be a way: escaping filter patterns

David Bovill david.bovill at gmail.com
Sat May 2 07:26:50 EDT 2009


Afraid not :(

2009/5/2 Bernard Devlin <bdrunrev at gmail.com>

> does this work?
>
> filter tXmlText with "*tr[[2]]"
>
> When you wrote to the list about this problem before, I did a quick
> test and that seemed to work, so I thought "maybe I don't get the
> problem".
>
> I'm not sure if it will work using "[[*]]"
>
> Bernard
>
> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 9:11 PM, David Bovill <david at architex.tv> wrote:
> > Still trying to figure this out - my hack ends up failing - I've returned
> a
> > list of child names from XML, and wish to filter out all the "<tr>"
> elements
> > which appear like tr[1], tr[2]. So I want to filter using "tr[*]", but as
> > "[" is a special char... andthe usual "\[" does not work for escaping?
> Any
> > ideas?
> >
> > 2009/4/24 David Bovill <david at architex.tv>
> >
> >> Any one know the way to escape characters such as "[" in patterns for
> the
> >> "filter" expression?
> >>
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