Thank you Martin.

"Martin Honnen" wrote:

> 
> 
> Satya Karri wrote:
> 
> 
> > I have a string  -  Hello"world",test "purpose"
> > 
> > I want to use XLST to turn this one into - "Hello""world"",test ""purpose"""
> > 
> > I try to replace every double quote into two doublequotes for the purpose of 
> > outputting CSV file format using XSLT.
> 
> You need to write a recursive template that looks for a double quote, 
> takes the string before it, adds two double quote characters, and calls 
> the template on the remaining string.
> 
> So if you want to transform
>    Hello"world",test "purpose"
> into
>    Hello""world"",test ""purpose""
> you could do it alike this:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet
>    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>    version="1.0">
> 
> <xsl:output method="text" />
> 
> <xsl:param name="input"
> select="'Hello"world",test "purpose"'" />
> <xsl:param name="defaultCharacter" select="'"'" />
> 
> <xsl:template match="/">
>    <xsl:call-template name="duplicateCharacter">
>      <xsl:with-param name="inputString" select="$input" />
>    </xsl:call-template>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template name="duplicateCharacter">
>    <xsl:param name="inputString" />
>    <xsl:param name="characterToDuplicate" select="$defaultCharacter" />
>    <xsl:choose>
>      <xsl:when test="contains($inputString, $characterToDuplicate)">
>        <xsl:variable name="head"
>                      select="concat(substring-before($inputString, 
> $characterToDuplicate), $characterToDuplicate, $characterToDuplicate)" />
>        <xsl:variable name="tail">
>          <xsl:call-template name="duplicateCharacter">
>            <xsl:with-param name="inputString" 
> select="substring-after($inputString, $characterToDuplicate)" />
>            <xsl:with-param name="characterToDuplicate" 
> select="$characterToDuplicate" />
>          </xsl:call-template>
>        </xsl:variable>
>        <xsl:value-of select="concat($head, $tail)" />
>      </xsl:when>
>      <xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of select="$inputString" /></xsl:otherwise>
>    </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> 
> Or look into existing solutions to replace a substring with another 
> string, one is here:
>    <http://www.exslt.org/str/functions/replace/index.html>
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> 	Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
> 	http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/
>