That is exactly what I need, to be able to get the nth item 

I understand it is a rare use-case and the approach taken might not be too bad after all 

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From: "Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2015 9:45:10 AM 
Subject: Re:  a sequence of regex-group() 





On 28 Oct 2015, at 15:20, Geert Bormans geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx < xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: 

Hi all, 

sanity check 

If I wanted a sequence of all the regex-group() values available in a matching-substring... 




Yes, but what could you usefully do with such a sequence other than to find the Nth item? 

Michael Kay 
Saxonica 

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