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In XSLT 3.0 it is allowed (since a while) to have empty-matching regexes. This was decided three years ago in a Prague meetup, I believe and I (vaguely) remember that the intent was to bring the specs in line with this. In short, could we drop FORX0003?
There was no consensus to make this change.