a "sed" Extension function for Xalan?

[Steffen Yount <sy...@nakedyuppie.com>]

Hi

I was just reading through the Xalan Doc at
http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/extensionslib.html and it said that this
would be the place to write if I had a any ideas and/or contributions I
would like to make. . .

So here goes, 
I was thinking it would be a pretty useful to have a function that would
be like "sed" is with Unix. . .

For this function, you would specify an xpath and then a sed command (eg
a substitution with: 
s/regular_expression/replacement/flags). Then the content of the node
refered to by the xpath would be processed according to the sed command
rules, the result would then be returned as a node. . .


What do you think?

Cheers,
-Steffen
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