Re: translate function

    is there any restriction i the translate function,
    because i try to translate each escape in a sentence to '-'
    so i use this instruction:
    <xsl:value-of select="translate($caption_title,' ','-')"/>
    but it wasn't translated well.
    for example:
    for <xsl:value-of select="translate('Figure 1.
    Répartition des alimentations dans la baie SK (vue avant)',' ','-')"/>
    i get:
    Figure-1.--Répartition des alimentations dans la baie SK (vue avant)
    but i should get :
    Figure-1.--Répartition-des-alimentations-dans-la-baie-SK-(vue-avant)
    

Beware, your "for example" wasn't an example of the instruction you
gave. If you put a literal string in an attribute value it will be
subject to white space normalisation by the XML parser, so
for example you are correct that the newline after Figure 1.
should be converted to a -.

However if that had been element content and you had defined $caption_title
as the content of that element, it would not have been normalised as an
attribute value and so the newline would be a #10 character and not
translated to a -.

You might want to check all your white space really are sopaces, not
newlines or tabs. (or add newline and tab to your translate function, or
apply normalize-space to get rid of them before translating)

David

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