That was one of the permutations I tried, but since it gave me the same error message,

"Error on line 20 of file:/X:/PROJEC~1/MATRIX~1/xslt/NEFCF7~1.XSL:
  SXXP0003: Error reported by XML parser: Whitespace required before attributes.
Failed to compile stylesheet. 1 error detected."

as all my other attempts, I figured I had a regex problem. I'm using Saxon 8.6 on this. So if the problem isn't (now at least) the regex, what else could be the problem?
-- 
Charles Knell
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-----Original Message-----
From:     David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent:     Fri, 6 Jan 2006 16:07:25 GMT
To:       xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  Re:  Trouble understanding how to use replace()



replace(req-text,'"','''')

(this uses XPath2 syntax '' for a ' in a '-delimited xpath string.)

now you need to get that in an XML attribute so you need to XML-quote
the " and use " to delimit the expression

select="replace(req-text,'"','''')"

David