David,

>> To give you an idea about what I'm going on about, the signature of
>> the function I have in mind is:
>
> the system which I use to read the email on this list, and to write
> xsl stylesheets, provides the following functions:

Well int emacs wunnerful ;)

I was kinda describing match-string, but with nested subexpressions -
I like the idea of nested subexpressions, especially when coupled with
named subexpressions, like I was talking about with Marc.

But I guess that we should keep it simple, to build on familiarity
with regexps in other languages.

Cheers,

Jeni

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