RE: [xsl] How to call extension function from xpath multiple times?

Subject: RE: [xsl] How to call extension function from xpath multiple times?
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 12:43:38 -0000
> 		pattern = pattern.replaceAll("_asterix_", "\\\\w*");
> 		pattern = pattern.replaceAll("_qstnmark_", "\\\\w");
> 
> 		return java.util.regex.Pattern.matches(pattern, 
> elemName);

You are generating a regular expression that will contain "\\w". This will
match a string containing a "\" followed by a "w". But you are using it to
match element names, which never contain a "\".

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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