Ken and Mukul,

Thank you for your responses.  Yes I am not a version 2 fanatic (yet) so
this will work just fine for me.

Thanks again,
Jim



> -----Original Message-----
> From: G. Ken Holman [mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 2:12 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE:  Xslt 2 stripping out non-numbers
> 
> At 2005-04-19 13:53 -0400, Jim Neff wrote:
> >The characters to be removed could be anything, upper, 
> lower, hyphens, 
> >spaces ... Anything NaN.
> >...
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From:     Jim Neff <jneff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent:     Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:22:30 -0400
> > > To:       <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Subject:   Xslt 2 stripping out non-numbers
> > >
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > I need to strip out non-numerical values from a string.
> > >
> > > Here is a sample input value:  TUV0062
> > >
> > > And what I want is :  0062  (or just 62)
> >...
> > > What is the correct way to do this using XSLT 2?
> 
> Would an XSLT 1 compatible method be acceptable?
> 
> I hope the below helps.
> 
> . . . . . . . Ken
> 
> t:\ftemp>type neff.xsl
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <xsl:stylesheet 
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>                  version="1.0">
> 
> <xsl:output method="text"/>
> 
> <xsl:template match="/">
>     <xsl:variable name="target" select="'TUV0062'"/>
> 
>     <xsl:value-of select="number(
>                            translate($target,
>                             translate($target,'0123456789',''),''))"/>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> t:\ftemp>saxon neff.xsl neff.xsl
> 62
> t:\ftemp>
> 
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