Saxon Documentation

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About Saxon

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Licensing

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:matches

fn:matches(string? $input, string $pattern) → boolean?

Function signature

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

Returns true if the given string matches the given regular expression

XPath 2.0 Specification

fn:matches(string? $input, string $pattern, string $flags) → boolean?

Function signature

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

Returns true if the given string matches the given regular expression, specifying flags to control the way pattern matching is performed

XPath 2.0 Specification

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