Re: [xsl] efficiently extracting a capture group from analyze-string()

["Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex gerrit.imsieke@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04.06.2022 20:47, Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx wrote:
> On 04.06.2022 17:30, Chris Papademetrious 
> christopher.papademetrious@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I had to define
> >
> > B  xmlns:fn=http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions
> >
> > in my stylesheet for fn:group to match, and Ibm not sure if therebs a 
> > better way to do that too.
>
> I am not a fan of a wildcard for the namespace prefix but when I would 
> only need fn to access the analyze-string result (or a quick selection 
> in some json-to-xml result) I sometimes allow myself to take the 
> wildcard e.g. *:group ( or for JSON e.g. *:map) shortcut.

Who among us hasn't used wildcard prefixes out of ignorance, 
desperation, convenience, or the unwillingness to change swathes of 
legacy code, or a combination of any of these reasons?