RE: [xsl] Could not use matches in Regular Expression (XSLT 2.0)

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I find it hard to believe that this stylesheet delivered anything other than
an error: the regular expression needs to be in quotes (as a string literal)
and it's also missing an opening square bracket. If you want the 4 to be at
the start, you should also anchor it to the start: matches(., '^4[0-9]{6}')

Regards,

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


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jack Bush [mailto:netbeansfan@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 01 May 2010 14:56
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Could not use matches in Regular Expression (XSLT 2.0)
> 
> Hi Forum members,
> 
> I
> am new to XSLT 2.0 and would like to do the following basic 
> numeric string pattern matching using regular expression:
> 
> <xsl:template match="ns:p[ns:strong='Telephones:']">
>   <xsl:choose>
>     < -- If global parameter $TELEPHONE_AREA_CODE equals to 
> FAIRYLAND -->
>     <xsl:when test="$TELEPHONE_AREA_CODE = ''FAIRYLAND">
>       <xsl:for-each select="ns:a">
>       <-- Only accept the phone number that starts with 4 
> follow by six digits....   ---> 
>         <xsl:if test="matches(.,4[0-9][0-9][0-9]0-9][0-9][0-9])">
>           <phone_number><xsl:value-of select='.'/></phone_number>
>         </xsl:if>
>       </xsl:for-each>/>
>   ......
> 
> However, it is picking up phone numbers starting with 1 
> instead. Also tried the starts-with() with the same outcomes.
> 
> I am using JDK1.6.19, Netbeans 6.7, JDOM 1.1, Saxon 9.1 on Windows XP.
> 
> Your assistance would be much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Jack