Re: substring function not handling hyphens in variabl

Chas Mick wrote at 13 Sep 2001 11:36:46 -0400:
 > I have just upgraded from Xalan 1.0.0 to Xalan
 > 1.3.  The following snippets no longer function
 > correctly:
 > 
 > <xsl:value-of
 > select="concat(substring($user,1,3),substring($user,5,6),substring($user,8,11))"/>

Since you're really only worried about '-' characters, You could just
use:

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

Regards,


Tony Graham
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