Shane Knapp wrote:
> 
> hey all!
> 
> i've been lurking on here for a few days, reading and learning.  we're got
> quite the resource here.  lots of good, knowledgable people!
One character substitutions are easy with translate() function:
http://zvon.org/xxl/XSLTreference/Output/index.html
http://www.zvon.org/cgi-bin/xlab/bin/stringFunctions.py

Word substitutions are much more involved. My solution to this problem
was Perl and nowadays
it is Python.

> 
> and now that've greased the wheels a little bit...  ;)
> 
> is it possible to format data within XML tags during the XMLT processing?
> for instance, to strip out puncuation marks, substitute words, etc...
> 
> for example, change this:
> 
> <problem>shane's car is broken & he can't get home.</problem>
> 
> to:
> <problem>shanes car is broken and he cant get home</problem>
> 
> i think i can use DOM to help...  but seeing that i've been
> learning/reading/doing this stuff since sunday afternoon, i'm still in
> newbie-mode.  :)
> 
> thanks in advance!
> 
> shane
> --
> Shane Knapp
> Wireless Platform Engineer
> LiveMind, Inc
> 415.861.0394
> www.livemind.com
> 
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