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Sarvesh Sahu
Sarvesh Sahu

Reputation: 31

XSLT matches() function not found

I am writing an XSLT transformation in which I wish to use the matches function to do a regex match and replace.

Visual Studio 2008 that 'matches ()' is an unknown XSLT function.

<xsl:when test="matches(normalize-space(.),'^([(]I[)])(.+)')">
                    <xsl:analyze-string select="normalize-space(.)" regex="^^([(]I[)])(.+)"
                        flags="x">
                        <xsl:matching-substring>
                            <xsl:variable name="paraNumber">
                                <xsl:value-of select="regex-group(1)"/>
                            </xsl:variable>
                            <xsl:variable name="text">
                                <xsl:value-of select="regex-group(2)"/>
                            </xsl:variable>
                            <span class="upper-I-double-bracket">
                                <xsl:value-of select="$paraNumber"/>
                            </span>
                            <xsl:value-of select="$text"/>
                        </xsl:matching-substring>
                    </xsl:analyze-string>
                </xsl:when>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1928

Answers (1)

Dimitre Novatchev
Dimitre Novatchev

Reputation: 243619

Visual studio (all currently known versions) uses the .NET XSLT 1.0 processor XslCompiledTransform or (versions before VS2005) the older XslTransform. These are XSLT 1.0 processors.

The xsl:analyze-string is only supported by XSLT 2.0+ and this explains the error message you get.

If you need to use an XSLT 2.0 processor in a .NET environment you can choose either one of the Saxon.NET or XQSharp XSLT 2.0 processors that are developed especially for .NET.

Upvotes: 2

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