RE: [xsl] Re: removing - ' - Is it possible?

Subject: RE: [xsl] Re: removing - ' - Is it possible?
From: Yago Alvarado <Yago.Alvarado@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 10:22:36 +0100
Thanks Dimitre!

   Simple and effective!


Regards,
Yago

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dimitre Novatchev [mailto:dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 02 October 2003 10:28
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Re: removing - ' - Is it possible?
> 
> 
> > This MUST be possible...the case is HOW?
> 
> Like this:
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
>  <xsl:output method="text"/>
> 
>   <xsl:variable name="Q">'</xsl:variable>
>   <xsl:variable name="str">a'b'c'd</xsl:variable>
> 
>   <xsl:template match="/">
>     <xsl:value-of select="translate($str, $Q, '')"/>
>   </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> When this transformation is applied on any source.xml (not 
> used) the wanted
> result is produced:
> abcd
> 
> 
> =====
> Cheers,
> 
> Dimitre Novatchev.
> http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
> 
> 
> 
> "Yago Alvarado" <Yago.Alvarado@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:E37A8B2D6B01174384DC428A78647A961346DC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi list!
> >
> >    I wanted to remove all the apostrophes ' from a string.
> >
> >    My first idea was using the translate function... i.e.
> >
> > <xsl:value-of select='translate(@mystring,''','')'/>
> >
> > Unfortunately this didn't work, I get the error.
> >
> > ERROR: Required white space was missing.
> >
> >
> > So I thought that maybe using different quotes I would be 
> able to achieve
> > the result I was after, so I tried:
> >
> > <xsl:value-of select='translate(@mystring,"'","")'/> and I 
> got the same
> > error as before.
> >
> > <xsl:value-of select="translate(@mystring,''','')"/> ERROR: 
> Description:
> > Expected token ')' found 'STRING'.
> >
> > At this point I thought...well, let's try using the unicode 
> number rather
> > than the symbol...
> > so I tried
> > <xsl:value-of select="translate(@mystring,'&#x27;','')"/> ERROR:
> > Description: Expected token ')' found 'STRING'.
> >
> > I tried a few more variations with the same frustraiting result...
> >
> > At this point I had to accept the fact that ... this is 
> *probably* not the
> > way to achive what I want...
> > so after a quick search in the faq and the archives I 
> decided to ask to
> the
> > list and see if anyone has
> > faced a similar situation in the past...
> >
> >
> > This MUST be possible...the case is HOW?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Yago Alvarado
> >
> > 
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