RE: translate function

> the white space are  

I'm hope you are telling us that you have solved the problem, but just
in case: space (x20) and NBSP (xa0) are different characters and one
will not match the other.

Michael Kay

> 
> David Carlisle a écrit :
> 
> >     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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