Re: Regex string function question

Random thoughts :

<aaa>
  <bbb>123</bbb>
  <bbb>ZYX</bbb>
  <ccc>123</ccc>
  <date-time>a nice time was 2001-01-24T09:20:25<date-time>
</aaa>


Select all nodes containing a number :

<xsl:apply-templates select="//*[match-regexp(.,'\d')]"/>

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All nodes with names starting with b or c:
<xsl:apply-templates 
     select="//*[match-regexp(name(),'\A[bc]')]"/>

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Text nodes creation:
<xsl:apply-templates 
    
select="create-text-nodes-regexp(//date-time,'\s+(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})T')"
     mode= "format-date" />

<xsl:template match="text()" mode="format-date">
   ...
  <xsl:when test="position()=1">Year: <xsl:value-of
select="."/></xsl:when>
  <xsl:when test="position()=2">Month: <xsl:value-of
select="."/></xsl:when>
  <xsl:when test="position()=3">Day: <xsl:value-of
select="."/></xsl:when>


Every word character from a string change to a text node if followed by
non-word character:

<xsl:apply-templates select="create-text-nodes-regexp('Hello, world! How
are you?','(\w)\W')"/>

Eric van der Vlist wrote:
> 
> Nic,
> 
> Miloslav Nic wrote:
> >
> > If it had my dream would come true.
> > But unfortunately they do not appear in XSLT 1.1 proposal.
> > What a pity.
> 
> It's also one of my dreams and I am sure we are not the only ones.
> 
> Why won't us put a prosal for a standardised extension ?
> 
> More precisly, my dream takes the form of functions taking a string (or
> a XPath expression ?) and a regular expression as parameters and
> returning a node set with the results.
> 
> Borowing an exemple from the PHP manual [1]:
> 
> preg_match_all("Call 555-1212 or 1-800-555-1212 or (612) 555-1313",
>         "/\(? (\d{3})? \)? (?(1) [\-\s] ) \d{3}-\d{4}/x")
> 
> would return a nodeset whose structure could be:
> 
> <matches>  <!-- maybe we don't need a document element here ? -->
>  <match>
>   <part>555-1212</part>
>  </match>
>  <match>
>   <part>1-800-555-1212</part>
>  </match>
>  <match>
>   <part>(612) 555-1313</part>
>  </match>
> </matches>
> 
> What do you think ?
> 
> Eric
> 
> [1] http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match-all.php
> 
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