I'm trying to replace "¬"-characters with "-" in strings in a XML file.

This is what I have so far (not working):

  <xsl:template name="search-and-replace">
    <xsl:param name="input" select="'&#172;'"/>
    <xsl:param name="search-string" select="//text()"/>
    <xsl:param name="replace-string" select="'-'"/>
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="$search-string and contains($input,$search-string)">
        <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($input,$search-string)"/>
        <xsl:value-of select="$replace-string"/>
        <xsl:call-template name="search-and-replace">
          <xsl:with-param name="input" select="substring-after($input,$search-string)"/>
          <xsl:with-param name="search-string" select="$search-string"/>
          <xsl:with-param name="replace-string" select="$replace-string"/>
        </xsl:call-template>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:value-of select="$input"/>
      </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:template>

Any ideas why it doesn't work?

CodePudding user response：

Even in XSLT 1, to replace one character by another, the XPath translate function can do that job:

<xsl:template match="text()">
  <xsl:value-of select="translate(., '¬', '-')"/>
</xsl:template>