parsing strings is ___muxh___ easier  in xslt 2 than xslt1 (as regular
expression support got added) saxon8 has a (free) .NET implementation of
XSLT2.

If you are using XSLt1 then you want to use a string-replace template of
which the archives of this list, or the xsl-faq site  have plenty of
examples.

XSLl FAQis first hit for

http://www.google.com/search?q=xslt+string+replace

(from here at least)

David

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