A good way to do this is to use variables:

<xsl:variable name="apos">'</xsl:variable>

<xsl:value-of select="translate(xxx, $apos, '')"/>

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jimmy [mailto:jimmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 16 January 2007 11:13
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  translate apos in string
> 
> I'm trying to get rid of the ' and the line feeds in my 
> string but can't get it to work.
> 
> That's what I have so far:
> 
> <xsl:value-of select="
> translate(translate(/node,'&#xA;',''),'&apos;', '&apos;')"/>
> 
> 
> The first translation of line feeds works just fine, but I 
> can't get rid of the apostrophe. The parser gives me an error 
> because of the &apos. I tried different stuff but couldn't 
> get the proper solution.
> 
> Anyone got a hint there?
> 
> Thanks
> Jimmy