Re: Using xsl:variable and replace() to remove specifi

           <xsl:value-of select="$nameStr"/>

value-of returns a text node with the string value  of its argument so
you lose all the markup, you could use copy-of instead, or more simply
get rid of the variable and just do
   <affil id="{label}">
        <xsl:apply-templates/>
        </affil>


You haven't shown enough code to be sure but you may still lose the
markup
if you have added the replace() function in a template matching aff
replace() is a string valued function and you don't want to convert the
entire content of aff, to a string, you just want to process it's text
nodes, so


<xsl:template match="aff/text()">
   <xsl:value-of select="replace(.,___,___)"/>
</xsl:template>


<xsl:for-each select="//aff">
are you sure you want // there (which means search the entire document
to arbitrary depth)

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