Regular Expression, pattern matching in xsd

Question

I was wondering how to make a regular expression for any character except * and + . I\'ve tried ([^*+]) and (\\[^*+]) but

Answer 1

You were close:

[^*+]

Notice that there's no need for escaping those characters inside square brackets, because they have no special meaning there.

EDIT: according to http://www.regular-expressions.info/charclass.html:

Note that the only special characters or metacharacters inside a character class are the closing bracket (]), the backslash (), the caret (^) and the hyphen (-). The usual metacharacters are normal characters inside a character class, and do not need to be escaped by a backslash. To search for a star or plus, use [+*]. Your regex will work fine if you escape the regular metacharacters inside a character class, but doing so significantly reduces readability.

So the problem is not in the character escaping. Maybe you need to match all those occurences. In that case, look up @Cfreak's answer.