RE: [xsl] How do I capture the text "around" a node?

["James Fuller" <james.fuller@xxxxxxxxxx>]

aha !

use the translate() function to remove these characters

and XSLT 1.0 is very concrete so buy a book ! ( anything by Michael Kay or
Jeni Tennison recc )

cheers, jim fuller

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Peter
> Lavender
> Sent: 24 September 2002 15:13
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [xsl] How do I capture the text "around" a node?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> > Text handling like this is always (imho) a little confusing.  The simple
> > answer is to use xsl:apply-templates as this will hit all the child
> > text() nodes, not just the first(ala value-of).
>
> It is very confusing.
>
> While apply-templates works as you said, the problem i have is that I
> want to remove the chars (), hence I tried value-of
>
> > As a good-practice rule, you should always use apply-templates over
> > value-of (where possible) for a number of reasons, with the biggest
> > probably being that template match=text() gets called.
>
> I'm very new to this and have been struggling through basically
> finding what resources I can on the net.
>
> I'm reluctant to purchase a book as a reference as I understand that
> somethings are not set in concrete yet.
>
> With the cost of books these days I find it hard to justify purchasing
> them only to find that it hasn't answered my questions.
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Pete.
>
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