Re: [xsl] Creating strings with apos and replacing

["dvint@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I like this one

replace($input, '[^a-z0-9]+', '-', 'i')

more generl and avoids the problem all together ;-)

what does that 'i' and the end do? I thought replace only had 3 
parameters.

I wasn't able to get any of the quote options in the replace to work, 
not sure what I'm doing wrong there, so this one gets the job done.

..dan
On 2025-05-13 12:19, Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Tue, 2025-05-13 at 18:40 +0000, dvint@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > much working
> >
> > <xsl:function name="ping:gen_id">
> > 	<xsl:param name="INSTRING"/>
> > 	<xsl:value-of select="translate(replace(lower-
> > case($INSTRING), ' ',
> > '_'),
> > 	':()','')"/>
> > </xsl:function>
>
> you could use translate() twice here of course.
> translate($input, ' ', '_')
>
> often i use replace($input, '[^a-z0-9]+', '-', 'i')
> for generating IDs (and then fix them up to be unique), since e.g.
> allowing % or < or > or & can also cause interesting problems :)
>
>
> > select="translate($inputString,
> > &apos;&apos;, '')" />
> > \xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0 <xsl:value-of select="$outputString" />
>
> Your problem here is after the XML parser converts &apos; to ' the
> XPath processor sees,
> translate($inputstring, '', '')
> which is not what you want at all.
>
> select="translate($inputString, &quot;'&quot;, '')
>
> will turn into
>     translate($inputString, "'", '')
> which is what i think you want.