RE: about & ...

translate(item, '& ', '');

Gertjan Assies

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Fei Zheng [mailto:Fei.Zheng@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 4:18 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE:  about & ...

"Food & Drink" is what I have in the xml file. I should have made it
clearer. 

item is a element which has a value of "Food & Drink" in the xml file.

It will never replace '&' into '' if I have -- translate(item, 'amp;',
''); 




-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Brown [mailto:sbrown@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 9:45 AM
To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE:  about & ...


XSLT is expressed in XML, and so must conform to all the XML rules,
including the fact that "&" is a forbidden character used only to mark
the
start of an entity and must be represented with "&".

translate('Food & Drink','& ','')

Note I've also added the space in the second argument so these are
replaced
as well to provide "FoodDrink".

To pre-empt your next question, the use of & is required in the
serialized XML document. The above function will not translate each
individual character of '&','a','m', etc. to '', because an XSLT
stylesheet
is parsed like any other XML document prior to processing, and so the
XSLT
engine itself will understand it as '&' --> ''.

Regards,

S

-----Original Message-----
From: Fei Zheng [mailto:Fei.Zheng@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 20 June 2003 14:40
To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  about & ...


I'd like to translate "Food & Drink" into "FoodDrink". 

I use this:   translate('Food & Drink',  '&',  '' );

Apparently, an error occurs with the code above because of the '&'. Can
anyone tell how to handle the '&' here?  

Thanks in advance.

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