Are .NET 3.5 XPath classes and methods XSLT 2.0 compatible?

Question

I\'d like to use regular expressions in selecting elements using the match function. I\'d prefer not to use an external library (such as saxon) to do this.

Answer 1

Yes, 3.5 XPathNavigator supports XSLT 2.0.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xpath.xpathnavigator.aspx

"The XPathNavigator class in the System.Xml.XPath namespace is an abstract class which defines a cursor model for navigating and editing XML information items as instances of the XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model."