now to get that expression into a select attrbute. As far as XML is
concerned it's all just an opaque string, that has three " and five '
so if you are using " to delimit the attrinute you need to " the
occurrences of " in the attribute value

select="translate(normalize-space(ln:term),
   concat("' /()",'"')
   '_')"

David

   <xsl:variable name="apos">&apos;</xsl:variable>
   <xsl:variable name="quot">&quot;</xsl:variable>

Grtz,
Geert