RE: [xsl] How to filter characters from a string?

[Greg Faron <gfaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:11 PM 3/29/2002, you wrote:
> Write a translate that removes all the characters that are allowed in
> base64. The result of this translate is a string containing all the
> characters that aren't allowed, i.e. the ones you want to remove. Use this
> as the second parameter for another translate():
>
> translate($x, translate($x, 'ABCDE...abcde...12345...', ''), '')

  Oooh, I like that one.  This way the second translate() is customized 
for every argument, but easily coded (and maintained).  Do you know of any 
way to benchmark Microsoft XSLT operations so that I could see which is 
faster?  I suspect that the double translate() is better than the template 
solution posted earlier.


Greg Faron
Integre Technical Publishing Co.



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