only one item as 1st arg of matches() error

[weloki]

I'm working on scraping HTML pages and transforming the selected content from them into XML and I've been seeing a few errors here and there thrown by the Saxon XSLT parser:

WARN [2011-01-07 14:44:35 EST] (SaxonTranslator#429473) improper java log: XPTY0004: A sequence of more than one item is not allowed as the first argument of
WARN [2011-01-07 14:44:35 EST] (SaxonTranslator#429473) improper java log: matches() ("

[iceandrews]

The error is pretty self explanatory. The matches functions takes a single supplied STRING and tests if it matches a certain regex format. anytime you call the matches() functions you can only put a single string in the input. "matches(//body, $date_regex)" it's VERY unlikely that there's 1 string in the body node of an entire document. You'll have to drill down specifically to 1 and only 1 string before you use the matches() function.

[weloki]

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[iceandrews]

Yep, a predicate of [1] will get you the first "body" element that returns. That would solve the problem :) Glad you figured it out.