Saxon Documentation

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About Saxon

Changes in this Release

Notices

Using XSLT 2.0

Using XQuery

Handling Source Documents

XML Schema Processing

XPath API for Java

Saxon on .NET

Extensibility

Saxon Extensions

Sample Saxon Applications

The Saxon SQL Extension

XSLT Elements

XPath 2.0 Expression Syntax

Function Library

Standards Conformance

fn:replace

fn:replace(string? $input, string $pattern, string $replacement) → string?

Function signature

$input	xs:string ?
$pattern	xs:string
$replacement	xs:string
Result	xs:string ?

Replaces sequences of characters within a string that match a given regular expression

XPath 2.0 Specification

fn:replace(string? $input, string? $pattern, string? $replacement, string? $flags) → string?

Function signature

$input	xs:string ?
$pattern	xs:string
$replacement	xs:string
$flags	xs:string
Result	xs:string ?

Replaces sequences of characters within a string that match a given regular expression, specifying flags to control the way the regular expression is matched

XPath 2.0 Specification