## net.sf.saxon.java
Class JDK14RegexTranslator

    java.lang.Object
      net.sf.saxon.regex.RegexTranslator
          net.sf.saxon.regex.SurrogateRegexTranslator
              net.sf.saxon.java.JDK14RegexTranslator

    public class JDK14RegexTranslator

extends SurrogateRegexTranslator

This class translates XML Schema regex syntax into JDK 1.4 regex syntax. Author: James Clark Modified by Michael Kay (a) to integrate the code into Saxon, and (b) to support XPath additions to the XML Schema regex syntax.

This version of the regular expression translator treats each half of a surrogate pair as a separate character, translating anything in an XPath regex that can match a non-BMP character into a Java regex that matches the two halves of a surrogate pair independently. This approach doesn't work under JDK 1.5, whose regex engine treats a surrogate pair as a single character.

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class net.sf.saxon.regex.SurrogateRegexTranslator
`SurrogateRegexTranslator.BackReference, SurrogateRegexTranslator.CharRange, SurrogateRegexTranslator.Complement, SurrogateRegexTranslator.Dot, SurrogateRegexTranslator.Empty, SurrogateRegexTranslator.Property, SurrogateRegexTranslator.SimpleCharClass, SurrogateRegexTranslator.SingleChar, SurrogateRegexTranslator.WideSingleChar`

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class net.sf.saxon.regex.RegexTranslator
`RegexTranslator.Range`

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class net.sf.saxon.regex.RegexTranslator
`ALL, NONE, NOT_ALLOWED_CLASS, SOME, SURROGATES1_CLASS, SURROGATES2_CLASS`

Constructor Summary
`JDK14RegexTranslator()`

Method Summary
`static void` `main(String[] args)`
`void` `setIgnoreWhitespace(boolean ignore)`
`String` `translate(CharSequence regExp, boolean xpath)` Translates a regular expression in the syntax of XML Schemas Part 2 into a regular expression in the syntax of `java.util.regex.Pattern`.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
`equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

Constructor Detail

### JDK14RegexTranslator

    public JDK14RegexTranslator()

Method Detail

### setIgnoreWhitespace

    public void setIgnoreWhitespace(boolean ignore)

### translate

    public String translate(CharSequence regExp,
                            boolean xpath)
                     throws RegexSyntaxException

  Translates a regular expression in the syntax of XML Schemas Part 2 into a regular expression in the syntax of `java.util.regex.Pattern`. The translation assumes that the string to be matched against the regex uses surrogate pairs correctly. If the string comes from XML content, a conforming XML parser will automatically check this; if the string comes from elsewhere, it may be necessary to check surrogate usage before matching.

  Parameters:
    `regExp` - a String containing a regular expression in the syntax of XML Schemas Part 2
    `xpath` - a boolean indicating whether the XPath 2.0 F+O extensions to the schema regex syntax are permitted
  Returns:
    a String containing a regular expression in the syntax of java.util.regex.Pattern
  Throws:
    `RegexSyntaxException` - if `regexp` is not a regular expression in the syntax of XML Schemas Part 2, or XPath 2.0, as appropriate
  See Also:
    `Pattern`, XML Schema Part 2

### main

    public static void main(String[] args)
                     throws RegexSyntaxException

  Throws:
    `RegexSyntaxException`

Copyright (C) Michael H. Kay. All rights reserved.