How to apply the XPath function ‘substring-after’

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In XPath 2.0 this can be produced by a single XPath expression:

      /*/*/substring-after(., 'HarryPotter:')

Here we are using the very powerful feature of XPath 2.0 that at the end of a path of location steps we can put a function and this function will be applied on all nodes in the current result set.

In XPath 1.0 there is no such feature and this cannot be accomplished in one XPath expression.

We could perform an XSLT transformation like the following:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output method="text"/>

    <xsl:template match="https://stackoverflow.com/">
      <xsl:for-each select="/*/*[substring-after(., 'HarryPotter:')]">
        <xsl:value-of select=
         "substring-after(., 'HarryPotter:')"/>
        <xsl:text>&#xA;</xsl:text>
      </xsl:for-each>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

When applied on the original XML document:

<bookstore>
    <book>  HarryPotter:Chamber of Secrets </book>
    <book>  HarryPotter:Prisoners in Azkabahn </book>
</bookstore>

this transformation produces the wanted result:

Chamber of Secrets
Prisoners in Azkabahn

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