Ganesh,
	Try replace(replace(ss-report/cis-no,'.',''),' ','_')

That should return the string after removing all the '.' and replacing
spaces with '_'

If you need more information google 'XPath 2.0 Replace'

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-----Original Message-----
From: N. Ganesh Babu [mailto:ganesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 19 December 2005 11:41
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  text modifications in XSLT

Dear all,

How to do text modificaiton using XSLT.

My requirement is as follows:

Input
====
<ss-report>
<cm1-record>
<cis-no>1689 H.exdoc.120</cis-no>
<ocr-confidence level="6">33.3%</ocr-confidence>
<ocr-confidence level="7">32.1%</ocr-confidence>
<ocr-confidence level="8">10.4%</ocr-confidence>
</cm1-record>
</ss-report>


Output:
===

1689_Hexdoc120

Regards,
Ganesh