> Random thoughts :
> 
> <aaa>
>   <bbb>123</bbb>
>   <bbb>ZYX</bbb>
>   <ccc>123</ccc>
>   <date-time>a nice time was 2001-01-24T09:20:25<date-time>
> </aaa>
> 
> 
> Select all nodes containing a number :
> 
> <xsl:apply-templates select="//*[match-regexp(.,'\d')]"/>
> 
> =======================================================
> All nodes with names starting with b or c:
> <xsl:apply-templates 
>      select="//*[match-regexp(name(),'\A[bc]')]"/>
> 
> ===============================================================

Noting that 4XSLT has the equivalent of your match-regexp function through its ft:match extension function.


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