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Is there a Integer only character in xml

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evergrean100

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Dec 1, 2006
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The asterick in xml stands for all characters wildcard I assume?

What is the character for Integers only.

I have this setup in my xml for a Web page and was hoping to find out what to use for Integer only.

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Pager</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/beans/page/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
 
>The asterick in xml stands for all characters wildcard I assume?
Not so. If you have in mind path search, for instance, dos internal command dir take * as a wild card; for sql, it may mean to select all the fields (select * ...); in regular expression, it means any number of matches and dot (.) takes on more similarity as a wildcard! Hence, * may mean anything your application would like to see it.

><url-pattern>/beans/page/*</url-pattern>
If you have in mind to put a regular expression pattern as the data, it is more likely this: * will mean zero or more match of wildcard character (.).
[tt]<url-pattern>/beans/page/[red].[/red]*</url-pattern>[/tt]

>...was hoping to find out what to use for Integer only.
And, in that sense, if you restrict it to integer, this would be a step closer to your need.
[tt]<url-pattern>/beans/page/[red]\d[/red]*</url-pattern>[/tt]

All these only mean you've to get the concept right.
 
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