Tom,

I appreciate the "thinking outside the box" idea, but this case is
constrained to do the processing inside of the XSLT processor. I am also
only interested in performing transforming some of the text, as selected
in the course of the XSLT processing.

A script extension element or external object are options for doing
string processing along those lines. Are there any other approaches?

Thanks for your thoughts.

Cheers,
Stuart

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Subject: RE:  Generating numeric character references

[Stuart Celarier]

> I'd like to transform specific text subtrings into numeric 
> character references during in an XSLT transformation. For 
> example, I want to transform all occurrences that look like 
> "­" within a string into "&#173".
> 

Sounds like preprocessing would be a good thing to do.  Any kind of
string replace would do, wouldn't it?

Cheers,

Tom P

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