Case insensitive search for a pattern

The default mode of matches() search is case sensitive. An optional flag "i" can be specified to indicate a case insensitive searching. In this example only the second matches() is successful as the first search is case sensitive.

XSLT

      <xsl:stylesheet
                  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                  version="2.0">
            <xsl:output  method="xml"
                        indent="yes"
                        omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

            <xsl:template  match="/aaa">
                  <xxx>
                        <xsl:value-of  select="matches(.,'how')"/>
                  </xxx>
                  <yyy>
                        <xsl:value-of  select="matches(.,'how','i')"/>
                  </yyy>
            </xsl:template>

      </xsl:stylesheet>

XML

Output

<xxx>false</xxx>
<yyy>true</yyy>

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