XSLT is expressed in XML, and so must conform to all the XML rules,
including the fact that "&" is a forbidden character used only to mark the
start of an entity and must be represented with "&".

translate('Food & Drink','& ','')

Note I've also added the space in the second argument so these are replaced
as well to provide "FoodDrink".

To pre-empt your next question, the use of & is required in the
serialized XML document. The above function will not translate each
individual character of '&','a','m', etc. to '', because an XSLT stylesheet
is parsed like any other XML document prior to processing, and so the XSLT
engine itself will understand it as '&' --> ''.

Regards,

S

-----Original Message-----
From: Fei Zheng [mailto:Fei.Zheng@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 20 June 2003 14:40
To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  about & ...


I'd like to translate "Food & Drink" into "FoodDrink". 

I use this:   translate('Food & Drink',  '&',  '' );

Apparently, an error occurs with the code above because of the '&'. Can
anyone tell how to handle the '&' here?  

Thanks in advance.

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