You cannot replace strings, only characters. The replacement is a
string, for instance if you want to write an entity reference for a
specific character then you can map that character to the string that
represents an entity reference to that character.

Best Regards,
George
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cmay wrote:
> Thanks George, I didn't know about that option and it looks pretty
> good, good thing to know.
>
> Is there anything similar that will allow for replacement of strings in
> this manner?
>
> I see that then 2nd parameter can be a string, but everything I have
> read indicates that the first parameter "character" must be a single
> character and can't be a string.
>
> I'm guessing there isn't anything to do this other than writing your
> own function correct?
>
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> George Bina wrote:
> > If you can use XSLT 2.0 then you can use a character map. Just add the
> > following lines to your stylesheet and the tabs will be removed from
> > output:
> >
> > <xsl:character-map name="test">
> >   <xsl:output-character character="&#9;" string=""/>
> > </xsl:character-map>
> > <xsl:output use-character-maps="test"/>
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > George
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > George Cristian Bina
> > <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
> > www.---.com
> >
> > cmay wrote:
> > > I am having this problem...
> > > Lets say that your source XML is formatted like this:
> > > <somenode>
> > >     Here is some text
> > >     Here is some more text
> > > </somenode>
> > >
> > > When to a <xsl:value-of select="somenode" /> I want the output to be
> > > free of the tabs that are included in the source XML.
> > > These tabs are not really part of the content, but rather just there
> > > for formatting reasons.
> > >
> > > I tried doing:
> > > <xsl:value-of select='translate(somenode,"&#x9", "")'/>
> > > But that didn't seem to have an effect.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Any way to do this?