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

Not difficult to add a function that tests whether a string matches a regexp
pattern (last time I looked, there didn't seem to be any consensus on
Unicode regexp syntax and semantics - I think that may now have changed). 

Using a regexp to split a string into its parts requires more careful
thought.

Mike Kay

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