The following does vice versa; you specify what you want to keep

<xsl:value-of select="translate($phoneNumber, translate($phoneNumber, '0123456789', ''),'')"/>

Ivan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Canfield [mailto:Josh.Canfield@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 2:24 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE:  What is the equivalent
> 
> If you know all the delimiters you could remove them with something like this:
> 
> <xsl:value-of select="translate($phoneNumber, '()- ','')"/>
> 
> Josh
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kotes Mogili [mailto:Kotes.Mogili@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 11:17 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  What is the equivalent
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> What is the equivalent of the following logic in XSL1.0.
> 
> PhoneNumber=(678)898-4274
> for (int i = 0; i < phoneNumber.length(); i++) {
>                 if (Character.isDigit(phoneNumber.charAt(i))) out = out + phoneNumber.charAt(i);
>             }
> 
> Thanks for the help...
> 
> Thanks
> Kotes