Wouldn't it be better to do this by implementing the EXSLT string-handling
and regexp functions (or using the implementations if that has already been
done?)

www.exslt.org

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martynas Jusevicius [mailto:martynas.jusevicius@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 19 March 2009 14:00
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  Display link text as a hyperlink
> 
> I made a quick hack for this in PHP, calling native PHP 
> regexp functions from XSLT. Maybe it will be useful for some:
> http://www.xml.lt/Blog/2009/03/19/Regexp+string+replace+with+PHP+XSL
> 
> Martynas
> www.xml.lt
> 
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Michael Kay 
> <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> to refresh an old thread again -- how can this be done in XSLT 1.0?
> >
> > I wouldn't attempt this in pure XSLT 1.0, except by use of an 
> > extension function supporting regular expressions.
> >
> > Michael Kay
> > http://www.saxonica.com/