Re: [xsl] Placing mark-up in between strings

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

>  Actually, I wanted to avoid
> dealing with regex as there is no (if I'm right) an escaping
> function.  I mean a function that escapes a string to can be
> included in a regex to match exactly, even if it contains
> regex-special characters.

Isn't that just something like:

<xsl:function name="f:escape">
  <xsl:param name="s" as="xs:string"/>
  <xsl:sequence select="replace($s,'[\\\|\.\-\^\?\*\+\(\)\{\}\[\]]','\\$0')"/>
</xsl:function>

which turns ab*c.{8} into ab\*c\.\{8\}

David