Excellent. This is precisely what I was looking for.

I will write a few examples to demonstrate why
I consider such function very important for inclusion into the standard.

BTW: Would it be difficult to incorporate some open regexp library to be
used inside Saxon ?

Kay Michael wrote:
> 
> > If we have a way to make a nodeset of text notes from a string XSLT
> > would be almost magical :)
> 
> > Can someone write an extension function of this type for
> > Saxon or Xalan
> > so we could experiment a bit, please?
> 
> Sounds like saxon:tokenize() which already exists.
> 
> Mike Kay
> 
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