Re: [xsl] Replace(//text()) in XSLT 1

[Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>]

G. Ken Holman wrote:
> At 2012-11-16 12:01 -0500, Nathan Tallman wrote:
> > I'd like to replace hyphens with en dashes. In XSLT 2.0, I can do this
> > with replace(text()), but I'm limited to XSLT 1.0.
> >
> > How could I achieve the same thing in XSLT 1.0?
> >
> > <xsl:value-of select="replace(//text(), '-', '&#8211;')"/>
>
> First of all, I would expect the above statement to fail because the
> first argument to replace has to be a singleton.  I would have used:
>
>    <xsl:value-of select="replace(.,'-','&#8211;')"/>
>
> As for an XSLT 1.0 version, you need a recursive call to walk through
> the string making one replacement at a time

Why does
  <xsl:value-of select="translate(., '-', '&#8211;')"/>
not suffice?


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