RE: Replacing the space character with another charact

Thank you both. I'm using Xalan. Although I tried replacing
translate(.,' ','&') with translate(.,' ','*'), my indexterm
spaces still disappear -- they don't get replaced with either an ampersand
or an asterisk, as specified.

Maybe I need to replace my processor.

Mark

On 5/13/07, mozer <xmlizer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> &#x26; --> &
> &#x2A; --> *
>
> Xmlizer
>
> On 5/13/07, Mark Peters <flickrmeister@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to replace the space character with another character (I've
> > chosen the asterisk, but it could be anything) in a specific element's
> text
> > contents. I've read the Replace and String Replace pages on Dave
> Pawson's
> > site, and have read about the translate XPath function, but am still
> coming
> > up empty (literally!).
> >
> >
> > In my input XML, I have a number of <indexterm> elements such as the
> > following:
> >
> >  <indexterm>Greek History</indexterm>
> >
> >
> > I'd like to replace the space character as follows:
> >
> >  <indexterm>Greek*History</indexterm>
> >
> >
> > My stylesheet contains the following template:
> >
> >  <xsl:template match="indexterm">
> >     <indexterm>
> >        <xsl:value-of select="translate(.,'&#x20;','&#x26;')"/>
> >     </indexterm>
> >  </xsl:template>
> >
> >
> > For some reason, the stylesheet removes the spaces, rather than
> replacing
> > them with the asterisk:
> >
> >  <indexterm>GreekHistory</indexterm>
> >
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark