Re: [xsl] Replacing the space character with another character

["Mark Peters" <flickrmeister@xxxxxxxxx>]

That rocks!  Thank you so much.

Mark


On 5/14/07, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The template doesn't insert an asterisk if the indexterm text breaks
>
> because a linebreak isn't a space.
>
> you could use  use
>
> translate(.,' &#10;','**')
>
> to translate both spaces and newlines to *
>
> But you'd get two * if there is any white space at end of line so
> probably you'd be better with
>
> translate(normalize-space(.),' ','*')
>
> so you replace any run of white space by a single * or use xpath2 where
> you can express that more directly as
>
> replace(.,'\s+','*')
>
> David