Mention what type of regex we use, and reference the glossary.

PR: 29732

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@104257 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/directive-dict.html.en b/docs/manual/mod/directive-dict.html.en
index 5f35588bb1493d67b95fcf160dd4f79f496589be..a34e709f04e307a629fb495eceee97df2f633821 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/mod/directive-dict.html.en
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/directive-dict.html.en
@@ -98,9 +98,9 @@
 
       <dt><em>regex</em></dt>
 
-      <dd>A regular expression, which is a way of describing a
-      pattern to match in text. The directive definition will
-      specify what the <em>regex</em> is matching against.</dd>
+      <dd>A Perl-compatible <a href="../glossary.html#regex">regular
+      expression</a>. The directive definition will specify what the
+      <em>regex</em> is matching against.</dd>
 
       <dt><em>extension</em></dt>
 

diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/directive-dict.xml b/docs/manual/mod/directive-dict.xml
index 8f62e5b295ee845fe1763fa8df661c1891326db5..b5c86431f76ad67f4ccbcb0ed9f3f4c49759d2c5 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/mod/directive-dict.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/directive-dict.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
 <!DOCTYPE manualpage SYSTEM "../style/manualpage.dtd">
 <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="../style/manual.en.xsl"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.8 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.9 $ -->
 
 <!--
  Copyright 2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
@@ -91,9 +91,9 @@
 
       <dt><em>regex</em></dt>
 
-      <dd>A regular expression, which is a way of describing a
-      pattern to match in text. The directive definition will
-      specify what the <em>regex</em> is matching against.</dd>
+      <dd>A Perl-compatible <a href="../glossary.html#regex">regular
+      expression</a>. The directive definition will specify what the
+      <em>regex</em> is matching against.</dd>
 
       <dt><em>extension</em></dt>