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RE: [xsl] XSLT Replace for '?

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> I'm stuck trying to eliminate an opening tag from an XML 
> file. Keep in mind: I cannot change the format of the source 
> file. It has HTML embedded in a CDATA section. I am running a 
> series of regex replaces and concats to clean up the source.

Presumably your "Source" below is this "HTML embedded in a CDATA section"?
It doesn't look much like HTML to me! 
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> But occasionally the source file has a "<?xml:namespace 
> prefix = lbxrt />" tag stuck in the HTML section that I need 
> to simply delete. I am trying to use a regex group replace to 
> do this, but regex always leaves "<?" no matter what I do. 
> It's as if it starts the match after the "?". 

You haven't escaped the ? in your regex. "<?" in a regex matches "<" or
nothing, it doesn't match "<?". You need "<\?".

Note that writing the ? as an XML character reference doesn't escape it.
Your &#63; is translated to a ? long before the regex parser sees it.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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