Why should it be iso-8859-1, there is no $ symbol specified, first in iso-8859-15?
The euro symbol is represented how you can see it in my xml file.

Jim Fuller wrote:

> Sven Waibel wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> i looked at the FAQ and i found the solution to replace characters.
>> But the variable text is empty resp. match="text()"
>> and then the . returns nothing.
>> How can i substitute the $ character?
> 
> 
> how is the euro character represented in your document ?
> 
> is it an entity (e.g. I think its numeric entity is &128;) if so u might
> have to;
> 
> - try using numeric entity for replacement
> - make sure your xml encoding is iso-8859-1 (or UTF-8)
> 
> you can take a look at an xsl template that has been tested over time at
>  exslt.org
> http://www.exslt.org/str/functions/replace/index.html
> 
> gl, Jim Fuller
> 
>> my xsl:
>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>> <xsl:template match="text()">
>>    <xsl:call-template name="change" >
>>     <xsl:with-param name="text" select="."/>
>>    </xsl:call-template>
>> </xsl:template>
>>
>> <xsl:template name="change">
>>    <xsl:param name="text"/>
>>     <xsl:value-of select="$text"/>
>>     <xsl:choose>
>>         <xsl:when test="contains($text, '$')">
>>             <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($text, '$')"/>
>>                   &#8364;
>>                <xsl:call-template name="change">
>>                 <xsl:with-param name="text"
>> select="substring-after($text,'$')"/>
>>             </xsl:call-template>
>>         </xsl:when>
>>         <xsl:otherwise>
>>             <xsl:value-of select="$text"/>
>>         </xsl:otherwise>
>>     </xsl:choose>
>> </xsl:template>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> my xml:
>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-15"?>
>> <test>
>>     <header>
>>         <creation date="2005-01-10" timestamp="1105349670236"
>> user="sven" login="sven" />
>>     </header>
>>     <test-t id="35" >
>>     <numbering>1</numbering>
>>     <name><![CDATA[TT$]]></name>
>>     <path><![CDATA[/TT$]]></path>
>>     </test-t>   
>> </test>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------