How can I handle 'matches()' and other regex functions in XSLT when using PHP?

To handle 'matches()' and other regex functions in XSLT when using PHP, you can use the PHP XSLTProcessor class to apply the XSLT transformation and then use PHP's preg_match() function to handle regex operations on the transformed XML output. 

// Load the XSL stylesheet
$xsl = new DOMDocument();
$xsl->load('stylesheet.xsl');

// Load the XML input
$xml = new DOMDocument();
$xml->load('input.xml');

// Create XSLT processor and apply the transformation
$processor = new XSLTProcessor();
$processor->importStylesheet($xsl);
$transformedXml = $processor->transformToXML($xml);

// Perform regex operations on the transformed XML output
if (preg_match('/pattern/', $transformedXml, $matches)) {
    // Handle the matches
    print_r($matches);
}

Keywords

PHP XSLT regex matches() functions

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