Mukul Gandhi gives us a tutorial on the uses of, and differences between, XSLT’s analyze-string instruction and XPath’s analyze-string function.

XPath and the languages that use it - XSLT, XQuery, XForms, Schematron and many more - share with natural language that you can say things in many ways. XPath 3 adds new ways of saying things that can be both exciting and sometimes a little daunting. Let’s look at some new operators in XPath 3 and see how they can make things clearer and how to use them to write XPath expressions that are clearer and easier to read.