XSLT, 2nd Edition

Multiple-Character Escapes

There are also escapes that represent multiple characters. They are:

\s

Any whitespace character

\S

Anything other than a whitespace character

\d

Any digit

\D

Anything other than a digit

\w

Any word character. Word characters are all characters except the punctuation, separator and other characters (the character groups defined with P, Z and C).

\W

Anything other than a word character.

\i

Any character that can be the first letter of an XML name. That includes the underscore (_), the colon (:), and characters of all the world’s languages defined as letters in the XML specification.

\I

Anything other than a character that can be the first letter of an XML name.

\c

Any character that can be used in an XML name. That includes all of the characters that can appear as the first character (\i), plus the period (.), hyphen (–), and the characters defined as digits, combining characters and extenders in the XML specification.

\C

Anything other than a character that can be used in an XML name.

\p

A character in the following named character group. For example, \p{Nd} matches a numeric digit, while \p{IsThai} matches a Thai character.

\P

Anything other than a character in the following named character group. For example, \P{Nd} matches anything except a numeric digit, while \P{IsThai} matches anything except a Thai character.