Re: analyze-string question

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
  xmlns:my="my"
  version="2.0"
  exclude-result-prefixes="my xs"
  >

  <xsl:template match="p">
    <xsl:copy>
      <xsl:sequence select="my:wrap-nested(., '&lt;([^aeiou].+)&gt;')"/>
    </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:function name="my:wrap-nested" as="node()*">
    <xsl:param name="string" as="xs:string" />
    <xsl:param name="regex" as="xs:string" />
    <xsl:analyze-string select="$string" regex="{$regex}" flags="i">
      <xsl:matching-substring>
        <alt>
          <xsl:sequence select="my:wrap-nested(regex-group(1), $regex)"/>
        </alt>
      </xsl:matching-substring>
      <xsl:non-matching-substring>
        <xsl:sequence select="my:stress(.)"/>
      </xsl:non-matching-substring>
    </xsl:analyze-string>
  </xsl:function>

  <xsl:function name="my:stress" as="node()*">
    <xsl:param name="string" as="xs:string" />
    <xsl:analyze-string select="$string" regex="&lt;([aeiou])" flags="i">
      <xsl:matching-substring>
        <stress>
          <xsl:value-of select="regex-group(1)"/>
        </stress>
      </xsl:matching-substring>
      <xsl:non-matching-substring>
        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
      </xsl:non-matching-substring>
    </xsl:analyze-string>
  </xsl:function>

Dear XSLT List,

Thanks very much to Michael and Gerrit for their quick and helpful responses, which do, indeed, point to an effective solution.

Best,

David

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