Question

I have XML like this:

<a>
  <b>
    <c>some text here</c>
  </b>
</a>
<a>
  <b>
    <c>another cool text</c>
  </b>
</a>

I need to match word “cool” inside //a/b/c/text() and transform the XML like this

<a>
  <b>
    <c>some text here</c>
  </b>
</a>
<x>
  <y> prepend to cool text </y>
</x>
<a>
  <b>
    <c>another cool text</c>
  </b>
</a>

I tried this:

<xsl:template
        match="//a/b/c/matches(text(),'\.*cool\*.')">
...
</xsl:template>

but with no luck:

XTSE0340: XSLT Pattern syntax error at char 153 on line 30 in {...\.*cool\*...}:
  Function call may appear only at the start of a pattern

what am I missing here?

Answer 1

Your match is not correct, it should test inside brackets []:

<xsl:template
        match="//a/b/c[matches(text(), '.*cool.*')]">
...
</xsl:template>

Besides, if your regexp is that easy, then you can use the XPath method contains().