XSLT Replace function not found

Question

I am writing an XSLT transformation in which I wish to use the Replace function to do a regex match and replace.

However, Visual Studio 2008 reports that

Answer 1

Replace is not valid in XSLT 1.0. You have "translate()", which might work for you, but replace() is XSLT 2, and not part of the MS .NET XML codebase. You can get it with some third party XML libraries though.