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Finally, the caseSensitive attribute specifies whether the containing <Regex> element's match expression is to be interpreted case-sensitively. It is a boolean that defaults to "true".

Attributes

Name

Type

Default

Description

sourcestring
Identifies the attribute ID of the input attribute(s) to process. All attributes with an ID that matches the value will be evaluated

Child Element

Name

Cardinality

Description

<Regex>1 or more

Specifies a transform rule to apply to each value of the designated input attribute(s). See above for details on the element function

Attributes

Name

Type

Default

Description

matchstring

Specifies a regular expression to match against the input value(s). It can contain parentheses to specify capturing groups. 

deststring

Specifies the ID of a new attribute to create that will contain the transformed values. If not present, the transformed values replace the original attribute's values "in-place", if and only if the original attribute was a "simple" string-valued attribute. Other attribute types with more complex values cannot be transformed in-place.

Content

A replacement expression that can contain group placeholders to match the capturing groups (e.g., $1, $2, etc.). If the expression does not match, the value is passed through unchanged.

Example

Warning

This is overly simplistic, and assumes the source values are in a particular format.

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