From: Eyal Oren <eyal.oren@...>
Date: 2005-10-19T20:16:58+09:00
Subject: Re: attaching code to run on regular expression match

thanks. that might work, but the problem is I think in the unions of
the regexps that I use, see example:

because of the unions, I don't really want to decide after the match
what to do with it, but rather state it in the constituent regexp's
(e.g., I would like to say in the ImplicitWiki regexp what should
happen if it is encountered)


	ExplicitWiki = /\[\[([^\]]+)\]\]/

	# CamelCase followed by some non-word character, e.g. 'CamelCase.'
	ImplicitWiki = /([A-Z]+[a-z]+[A-Z]+\w*)\W/

	# <...>, no space inside brackets
	Uri = /<([^<>]+)>/

	# dc:title
	Prefix = /(\w*):(\w+)/

	# "hello"
	Literal = /"([^"]*)"/

	Wiki = Regexp.union ExplicitWiki, ImplicitWiki
	Pred = Regexp.union Wiki, Uri, Prefix
	Obj = Regexp.union Pred, Literal
	Annotation = /(#{Pred})\s*(#{Obj})\s*\./

	Variable = /(\?\w+)/
	UriPattern = Regexp.union Variable, Pred
	LiteralPattern = Regexp.union Variable, Obj
	Query = /\[\?\s+#{UriPattern}\s+#{UriPattern}\s+#{LiteralPattern}\]/