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On 01.07.2004 (14:34 Uhr -0500), Belkin, Alla wrote: >Hello, >I have to check if I have some of the extended ASCII (UTF8) characters in the input XML file. >So, I am using stylesheet for transformation XML input file to the different format of the XML file. >Can I do something efficient to check for special characters in some of the fields in the input XML file and to convert those specific characters, (for example, è to e) in the output file? To check if you have non-ASCII characters you can remove all ASCII chars from a string and check whether the result is empty. First create a string variable which contains all valid characters: <xsl:variable name="ascii-chars"> !...01234568789..ABCD...abcd...</xsl:variable> For the test you would use the translate() function: <xsl:if test="translate(., $ascii-chars, '') = ''"> ... </xsl:if> To change non-ASCII chars to ASCII chars you have to know which characters to change. This is easy if you know the input is ISO-8859-1 or some other limited range of characters. You would use the translate() function. If any valid UTF-8 char could be in the input, there is no easy solution, because in many languages single characters can only be transliterated to more than one ASCII character. - Michael -- ________________________________________________________________ Michael Müller-Hillebrand, Dipl.-Ing. <http://cap-studio.de/> FrameMaker, FrameScript, XML/XSL,... Publishing-Lösungen
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