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> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if anybody knows of an extension function to XPath which
> allows me to match text and attribute values in XML documents against
> regular expressions. I'd like to be able to write something like:
>
> /a/b[re:match(@c, '{.}')]
>
> to match all elements where an attribute has a value matching the regexp {.}
> (AVT) or:
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> /a/b/@c[re:match(., '{.}')]
>
> to match the attribute elements themselves.
>
> If there isn't such a thing yet I imagine it shouldn't be to hard to write.
> Can somebody give me some hints/directions on how to get started with this?
It depends on your XSLT processor. 4Suite comes with this built in. It's
called "f:match".
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