Define variable
File: Data.xml <?xml version="1.0"?> <Employees> <Person> this is a test </Person> </Employees> File: Transform.xslt <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:template match="/"> <html> <body> <h3>String handling</h3> <xsl:variable name="sentence" select="'this is a test'" /> Case-sensitive match against 'test': <xsl:value-of select="matches($sentence, 'test')" /> <br /> </body> </html> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> Output: <html> <body> <h3>String handling</h3> Case-sensitive match against 'test': true<br></body> </html>