This code sample is adapted from Clifford B. Anderson and Joseph C. Wicentowski, XQuery for Humanists (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2020), 86-87. Download this code sample in its raw form. View the source on GitHub.

let $isbn := "978-0300137231"
let $isbn-without-dash := fn:replace($isbn, "-", "")
return
    fn:string-length($isbn-without-dash)