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Subject: Re: translate function
From: abbouh <abbouh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 15:51:33 +0000
repartition translate
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David Carlisle a écrit :

>     is there any restriction i the translate function,
>     because i try to translate each escape in a sentence to '-'
>     so i use this instruction:
>     <xsl:value-of select="translate($caption_title,' ','-')"/>
>     but it wasn't translated well.
>     for example:
>     for <xsl:value-of select="translate('Figure 1.
>     Répartition des alimentations dans la baie SK (vue avant)',' ','-')"/>
>     i get:
>     Figure-1.--Répartition des alimentations dans la baie SK (vue avant)
>     but i should get :
>     Figure-1.--Répartition-des-alimentations-dans-la-baie-SK-(vue-avant)
>
>
> Beware, your "for example" wasn't an example of the instruction you
> gave. If you put a literal string in an attribute value it will be
> subject to white space normalisation by the XML parser, so
> for example you are correct that the newline after Figure 1.
> should be converted to a -.
>
> However if that had been element content and you had defined $caption_title
> as the content of that element, it would not have been normalised as an
> attribute value and so the newline would be a #10 character and not
> translated to a -.
>
> You might want to check all your white space really are sopaces, not
> newlines or tabs. (or add newline and tab to your translate function, or
> apply normalize-space to get rid of them before translating)
>
> David
>
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