At 2012-11-16 12:01 -0500, Nathan Tallman wrote:

I'd like to replace hyphens with en dashes. In XSLT 2.0, I can do this
with replace(text()), but I'm limited to XSLT 1.0.

How could I achieve the same thing in XSLT 1.0?

<xsl:value-of select="replace(//text(), '-', '&#8211;')"/>

First of all, I would expect the above statement to fail because the
first argument to replace has to be a singleton.  I would have used:

<xsl:value-of select="replace(.,'-','&#8211;')"/>

As for an XSLT 1.0 version, you need a recursive call to walk through
the string making one replacement at a time

Why does
  <xsl:value-of select="translate(., '-', '&#8211;')"/>
not suffice?

	Martin Honnen --- MVP Data Platform Development
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