RE: [xsl] Problem with matches in XPath 2.0

Subject: RE: [xsl] Problem with matches in XPath 2.0
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 09:32:59 +0100
Known bug, see

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1568858&group_id=29
872&atid=397617

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Fawcett [mailto:joefawcett@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 14 October 2006 18:52
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Problem with matches in XPath 2.0
> 
> Dear All
> 
> I'm having a problem with the matches() function, probably 
> due to misreading the literature. I'm using Saxon.NET version 8.
> The following stylesheet needs only a dummy XML input. I was 
> expecting the case-insensitive match to work.
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
>     xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
> <xsl:template match="/">
>     <html>
>     <body>
>     <h3>String handling</h3>
>     <xsl:variable name="sentence" select="'I love Paris in 
> the spring'"/>
>     Case-sensitive match against 'paris': <xsl:value-of 
> select="matches($sentence, 'paris')"/><br/>
>     Case-insensitive match against 'paris': <xsl:value-of 
> select="matches($sentence, 'paris', 'i')"/>
>     </body>
>     </html>
> </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> I get false against both matches.
> 
> Thanks for your help
> 
> Joe 

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