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I would love to have it. I cannot imagine my programming without regexps and I am missing them sorely form the XSLT spec but implementing regexps involves more work than the proposed function and so I hope that at least some possibility like this will be part of XSLT. Eric van der Vlist wrote: > > Hi Nic, > > Miloslav Nic wrote: > > > > The following mail I have sent to xsl-editors@xxxxxx > > with cc to "xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx". > > > > node-set createTextNodes(object,object?) > > > > Rationale: text handling is rather cumbersome in XSLT, some general > > method would be very useful > > > > The proposed function takes the first argument and converts it > > into a string > > The second optional object is a separator (default = whitespaces \s+) > > > > IMHO, what would be really nice and really powerful would be to allow a > regular expression as 2nd parameter and to return a node set with the > matching substrings... > > Eric > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric van der Vlist Dyomedea http://dyomedea.com > http://xmlfr.org http://4xt.org http://ducotede.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list -- ****************************************** <firstName> Miloslav </firstName> <surname> Nic </surname> <mail> nicmila@xxxxxxxxx </mail> <support> http://www.zvon.org </support> <zvonMailingList> http://www.zvon.org/index.php?nav_id=4 </zvonMailingList> XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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