Re: Character substitution

Yes that's not really the problem, the problem is that my text() returns nothing, so nothing can be replaced.

David Carlisle wrote:

>>how is the euro character represented in your document ?
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> It never matters how the source document is encoded, all such matters
> are resolved by the XML parser before XSLT starts.
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>>is it an entity (e.g. I think its numeric entity is &128;) if so u might 
>>have to;
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> Numeric character references are not entity references (they refer to
> characters not entities) the number for Euro is 8364 not 128.
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>>- try using numeric entity for replacement
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> You can use any XML syntax for that character in your stylesheet, a
> numeric character reference, or if it is in the encoding  used by the
> stylesheet you may use character data directly.
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>>- make sure your xml encoding is iso-8859-1 (or UTF-8)
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> iso-8859-1  doesn't have a euro, utf8 does. So if you use iso-8859-1 
> then you can't enter the euro directly, you'd have to use a character
> reference. 
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> You can use the character reference & # 8 3 6 4 ; in any encoding (so
> long as the encoding includes the digits and the characters & # ;)you
> can take a look at an xsl template that has
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>>been tested over time at 
>>  exslt.org
>>http://www.exslt.org/str/functions/replace/index.html
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> Since the request was just to change one character by another, the
> general replace template isn't needed you can just use the translate()
> function.
> 
> David
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