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Jim,
The short answer is that while XSLT 1.0 wasn't designed for this sort of work (which we call "upconversion" for various interesting reasons), XSLT 2.0 does have facilities that make it possible, at least in reasonably well-controlled cases. In particular, have a look at the xsl:analyze-string element. The more complete answer is that how tractable you find your problem to be will depend more on your definition of the problem itself than on XSLT's native capabilities, and indeed that if you can define the problem sufficiently to get a handle on it at all, XSLT is probably, at this point, as good a technical means as any available for solving it. (Modulo issues of scale, architecture etc.) So, in your case, one would have to start by defining what you mean by "attempt to detect math". What is this "math" of which you speak, and how do I know it's there? Cheers, Wendell At 04:24 PM 11/28/2007, you wrote: Well I am 4 days into understanding XSLT (and well 4 days into fully understanding xml). I am working on a file conversion utility where it would be an xml to xml conversion. In my research, I came across XSLT (along with XSL, XSL-FO, XSD, DTD, etc). My question is the following, if I have an element with text in it:
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