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The match-anything matcher

Sometimes you want to excuse some part of your XML document from checking for some reason. For these regions, you want to use the match-anything matcher.

Syntax:

match-anything &key how-many $\rightarrow$ matcher

Arguments and Values:

how-many--a symbol indicating how many times the matcher can match children of its parent tag. One of:

  1. :one--matches one
  2. :one-or-more--matches one or more
  3. :zero-or-more--matches zero or more
  4. :zero-or-one--matches zero or one (an optional matcher, in other words)

matcher--the matcher object returned.



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