thanks michael,

I knew something was wrong, when things got complicated.
these substring thingies were exactly what I needed

jan

On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 09:51:42 -0000, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >                               <xsl:value-of
> > select="translate(string(site:xml-file), $baseDir, '')"/>
> >                       </site:link>
> >               </site:document>
> >       </xsl:template>
> >
> > but keep getting strange, scrambled results...
> 
> Scrambled yes, strange no. Read the spec of translate()! Used like this, it
> deletes all occurrences of characters that appear anywhere in $base-dir from
> the contents of site:xml-file. You seem to be imagining that it does
> something completely different.
> 
> Take a look at the spec of substring-after and see whether that better meets
> your needs.
> 
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
> 
> 


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