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On Monday 09 September 2002 02:49, David Carlisle wrote: > > What can be done to achieve a character by character equivalence while > > transformation What David said. XML is not designed for this, and therefore XSLT is also not designed to be able to do what you want. If you're database requires text-based comparison and processing, then use a text-based (not XML-based) tool to do the work. You really shouldn't even be using XML in a system that doesn't support it, because things *will* break when one of your true XML tools changes something in a way that your text-based tools don't expect. If you can plug in XML support into your database, then you should do that. If you're worried about the performance overhead from XML parsers, you can work around that by using a better model (like you said in your previous messages, DOM will not work well, but I'm sure you can write your own SAX-model parser to do the comparison). If you're more worried about performance or buzzword-"XML"-compliance than getting everything to work together, including your legacy systems, then you need to reevaluate the project. Sorry to break it to you, buddy :) -- Peter Davis XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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