SAXONICA

Saxon Documentation
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About Saxon
Changes in this Release
Conditions of Use
Using XSLT 2.0
Using XQuery
Handling Source Documents
XML Schema Processing
The XPath API
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:replace

fn:replace(string? $input, string $pattern, string $replacement) → string?

Function signature

$input | xs:string ?
$pattern | xs:string
$replacement | xs:string
Result | xs:string ?

Replaces sequences of characters within a string that match a given regular expression

XPath 2.0 Specification

fn:replace(string? $input, string? $pattern, string? $replacement, string? $flags) → string?

Function signature

$input | xs:string ?
$pattern | xs:string
$replacement | xs:string
$flags | xs:string
Result | xs:string ?

Replaces sequences of characters within a string that match a given regular expression, specifying flags to control the way the regular expression is matched

XPath 2.0 Specification

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