RE: How to call extension function from xpath multiple

> 		pattern = pattern.replaceAll("_asterix_", "\\\\w*");
> 		pattern = pattern.replaceAll("_qstnmark_", "\\\\w");
> 
> 		return java.util.regex.Pattern.matches(pattern, 
> elemName);

You are generating a regular expression that will contain "\\w". This will
match a string containing a "\" followed by a "w". But you are using it to
match element names, which never contain a "\".

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