owing wildcards:
 
<ul> 
<li>An asterisk ('<code class="Code prettyprint">*</code>'). This matches a sequence of 0 to many occurrences of
the immediately preceding character.</li> 
 
<li>A period followed by an asterisk ("<code class="Code prettyprint">.*</code>"). This matches any sequence of 
0 or more characters.</li> 
</ul> 
 
<p> 
Because '<code class="Code prettyprint">\</code>' is used as an escape character when the string is read 
from XML (before it is parsed as a pattern), you will need to double