I have a string as follows:

xri:roughgoing:QE1_300:whatwasthis:majorleague:FC:Hungary

From this, I need to extract “QE1_300”.

I was considering using matches() or tokenize() in combination with some regex.

Would someone be able to suggest the best method?

<xsl:for-each select="myRef['[^:]*']">
 <xsl:if test="position() = 2">{.}</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>