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RE: removing - ' - Is it possible?

2003-10-02 02:19:40
Hi Yago.
You have two problems:
1. translate() function replaces one character with another character.
You can replace one character with white space, but you can't remove a 
character.

2. To remove character use one of "replace-string" templates offered by list 
members at:
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/sect21.html look at "Replace" link. I can't 
get it.

To send a parameter that contains a special character look at:
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N7150.html#d7104e577
A Michael Kay article.

And another tip. Use FAQ and archives. Similar problems where discussed 
yesterday.

Ceers.
Sergiu

Hi list!

   I wanted to remove all the apostrophes ' from a string.

   My first idea was using the translate function... i.e. 

<xsl:value-of select='translate(@mystring,''','')'/>

Unfortunately this didn't work, I get the error.

ERROR: Required white space was missing.


So I thought that maybe using different quotes I would be 
able to achieve 
the result I was after, so I tried:

<xsl:value-of select='translate(@mystring,"'","")'/> and I 
got the same
error as before.

<xsl:value-of select="translate(@mystring,''','')"/> ERROR: 
Description:
Expected token ')' found 'STRING'.

At this point I thought...well, let's try using the unicode 
number rather
than the symbol...
so I tried
<xsl:value-of select="translate(@mystring,'&#x27;','')"/> ERROR:
Description: Expected token ')' found 'STRING'.

I tried a few more variations with the same frustraiting result...

At this point I had to accept the fact that ... this is 
*probably* not the
way to achive what I want...
so after a quick search in the faq and the archives I decided 
to ask to the
list and see if anyone has
faced a similar situation in the past...


This MUST be possible...the case is HOW?

Regards,
Yago Alvarado

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