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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:
>  
>  	/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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