> This sounds like just what I want.  It isn't for a production 
> system, and one step in a pipeline of transformations for a 
> one-off conversion.  However I have a problem:  When I put ! 
> into the flags attribute of analyze-string I get the following error:
> 
>  FORX0001: Invalid character '!' in regular expression flags
> 
> from:
> 
>  <xsl:analyze-string select="$str" regex="{$abbr[1]}" flags="!">
> 

Sorry, it turns out it's implemented for matches(), tokenize(), and
replace(), but not for xsl:analyze-string.

Regards,

Michael Kay
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