RE: Wild Card in Match Statement

XSLT 1.0 doesn't support regular expressions, but in 2.0 you can write

match="processing-instruction(Pub)[matches(., '\*\d*')]"

In 1.0 you could do:

starts-with('*') and translate(substring-after('*', '0123456789', '')) = ''

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Naomi Gronson [mailto:naomi_gronson@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 18 October 2004 19:28
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Wild Card in Match Statement
> 
> I'm trying to match <?Pub *0000245?> where the numbers
> could be anything. I want to remove this.
> 
> <xsl:template
> match="processing-instruction('Pub')[.='\*\d*']">
> 
> </xsl:template>
> 
> Is what it would look like in Perl, but is there an
> easy way to use wild cards in XSL?  Thanks.
> 
> Naomi
> 
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