RE: intro, and quick newbie-ish question!

Well, I can't give you a direct solution, but I can make two comments 
that may or may not help :) First, it's XSLT not XMLT. 
It stands for the Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation. 
It is called this because it was initially 1/2 of XSL (extensible
stylesheet language) and in fact is still 1/2 of XSL, but is also
it's own separate standard. 

Next:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shane Knapp [mailto:SKNAPP@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 4:15 PM
[snip]
> 
> for example, change this:
> 
> <problem>shane's car is broken & he can't get home.</problem>

This is not well-formed XML -- because & is not allowed within
parsed character data (i.e.text inside an element). The parser
will throw an error for this before it even gets to the XSLT 
processor. 

I'm not sure (haven't tried it), but the Translate function may
be able to help with the remainder of the problem (removing 
' and . characters). You would need to put the string you want
to clean up in a variable and then use the function on the string
to get your final output. 

Sara 


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