> What is the best way to get rid of curly quotes/smart quotes in XML to
> XML transformation. I have no control over incoming XML document.

replace by nothing or replace by straight quotes?

translate(.,'&#201C;&#201D;','""')

will replace the left and right " by ' 


translate(.,'&#201C;&#201D;','')

will remove them,

David

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