On Tue, 2025-05-13 at 18:40 +0000, dvint@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> much working
>
> <xsl:function name="ping:gen_id">
> 	<xsl:param name="INSTRING"/>
> 	<xsl:value-of select="translate(replace(lower-
> case($INSTRING), ' ',
> '_'),
> 	':()','')"/>
> </xsl:function>

you could use translate() twice here of course.
translate($input, ' ', '_')

often i use replace($input, '[^a-z0-9]+', '-', 'i')
for generating IDs (and then fix them up to be unique), since e.g.
allowing % or < or > or & can also cause interesting problems :)


> select="translate($inputString,
> &apos;&apos;, '')" />
> B B B B  <xsl:value-of select="$outputString" />

Your problem here is after the XML parser converts &apos; to ' the
XPath processor sees,
translate($inputstring, '', '')
which is not what you want at all.

select="translate($inputString, &quot;'&quot;, '')

will turn into
    translate($inputString, "'", '')
which is what i think you want.



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