How to find a word within text using XSLT 2.0 and REGEX (which doesn't have \b word boundary)?

Question

I am attempting to scan a string of words and look for the presence of a particular word(case insensitive) in an XSLT 2.0 stylesheet using REGEX.

I have a list of wo

Answer 1

If your XSLT 2.0 processor is Saxon 9 then you can use Java regular expression syntax (including \b) with the functions matches, tokenize and replace by starting the flag attribute with an exclamation mark:

Michael Kay mentioned that option recently on the XSL mailing list.