IdPv3: Problem with back references in mapped attribute definition

[Cantor, Scott]

On 3/17/15, 11:41 AM, "Etienne Dysli-Metref" <etienne.dysli-metref at switch.ch> wrote:

>On 17/03/15 15:58, Cantor, Scott wrote:
>> I have no idea, but since "\" normally escapes a backslash in a Java
>> regex, I would expect "\\1" to return "\1".
>
>That's exactly what it does. Not what I expect though...

Why not? You've escaped the character that I assume is supposed to signal the back-reference, so you've asked for a literal backslash and then a 1.

Escaping gets hairy in Java, but I'm just assuming the simple explanation. None of the characters are XML-significant, so there's no tampering there.

-- Scott