sizzle的正则疑惑

Question

对于一开始的两个正则看不明白

    attributes = "\\[" + whitespace + "*(" + identifier + ")(?:" + whitespace +
        // Operator (capture 2)
        "*([*^$|!~]?=)" + whitespace +
        // "Attribute values must be CSS identifiers [capture 5] or strings [capture 3 or capture 4]"
        "*(?:'((?:\\\\.|[^\\\\'])*)'|\"((?:\\\\.|[^\\\\\"])*)\"|(" + identifier + "))|)" + whitespace +
        "*\\]",

    pseudos = ":(" + identifier + ")(?:\\((" +
        // To reduce the number of selectors needing tokenize in the preFilter, prefer arguments:
        // 1. quoted (capture 3; capture 4 or capture 5)
        "('((?:\\\\.|[^\\\\'])*)'|\"((?:\\\\.|[^\\\\\"])*)\")|" +
        // 2. simple (capture 6)
        "((?:\\\\.|[^\\\\()[\\]]|" + attributes + ")*)|" +
        // 3. anything else (capture 2)
        ".*" +
        ")\\)|)",

想知道如何才算是attributes，pseudos ,
特别不理解的是其中匹配的 引号内 斜杠加任意字符 如链接1里面的group3

链接打不上，Regulex
第一个的正则
\[(?:whitespace)*((?:identifier))(?:(?:whitespace)*([*^$|!~]?=)(?:whitespace)*(?:'((?:\\.|[^\\'])*)'|\"((?:\\.|[^\\\"])*)\"|((?:identifier)))|)(?:whitespace)*\]
第二个的正则
:((?:identifier)=)(?:\((('((?:\\.|[^\\'])*)'|\"((?:\\.|[^\\"])*)")|((?:\\\\.|[^\\\\()[\\]]|(?:attributes))*)|.*)\)|)

Answer 1

http://www.w3.org/TR/selector...