RE: Empty spaces turn to %20

> From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 8:54 AM
> Subject: Re:  Empty spaces turn to %20
> 
> > Use the translate() function:
> > 
> > <xsl:value-of select="translate(text(),'%20',' ')"/>
> 
> 
> That will translate "%20" to " " which does meet the stated
> specification,
> but it will also translate % to space, and remove every 2 and every 0
> from the input string, which probably isn't wanted.

Eh, my bad--I was trying to use translate() as a string replacement
function.

This will get easier in XSLT 2.0, right?  Something like:

<xsl:analyze-string select="text()" regex="%20">
  <xsl:non-matching-substring>
    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
  </xsl:non-matching-substring>
  <xsl:matching-substring>
    <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
  <xsl:matching-substring>
</xsl:analyze-string>

A bit unwieldy for a string replacement construct (unless I'm missing a
shorthand way of doing this), but I'll take it, particularly when I have no
control over the source XML.

cheers,
b.

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