I was thinking that, too, Wendell, but some quick testing revealed a 
problem. Because translate substitutes only one character, the semi-colon 
is replaced with a comma but no space. To get a space after each comma 
requires a different approach. I suppose a recursive template that uses 
substring functions would be the 1.0 solution. I think the 2.0 solution 
would be to tokenize the input string and then reassemble with a for-each 
on the tokens, adding the comma and space along the way.

Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services
(presently consulting at Synergistic Solution Technologies)




Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Cas,

At 11:36 AM 3/18/2005, you wrote:
><xsl:for-each select="translate(@software,';',', ')">
>     <xsl:value-of select="."/>
></xsl:for-each>

You want

<xsl:value-of select="translate(@software,';',', ')"/>

The translate() function operates on strings and returns a string. Since 
for-each iterates over a set of nodes, it requires a node-set to be 
returned by the expression in its @select: hence the error when you give 
it 
a string.

Cheers,
Wendell



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