I have a rather long unbroke string (a URL) which I would like to break
at certain points using XSL. I can't seem to get translate() to work:

translate(.,'/',,'<wbr>/</wbr>')

I don't know that the <wbr> tag is valid, but if can stick something
within the string I think I can figure out a way for it to wrap.

> translate(.,'/',,'&lt;wbr>/&lt;/wbr>')

translate() performs character-to-character mapping, not
character-to-string. See
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xpath-...tion-translate

So as you've written it -- assuming the double comma is just a typo --
you've said "Retrieve the text value of the current node (.), find all
instances of '/', and replace them with the '<' character (&lt;)".

If you're trying to replace instances of / with <wbr>/</wbr>, this won't
do it. See recent discussions of using the substring functions, and
recursive templates if necessary, to achieve this... and you probably
want to insert a real <wbr> element rather text which describes one.

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Joe Kesselman wrote:[color=blue][color=green]
> > translate(.,'/',,'&lt;wbr>/&lt;/wbr>')[/color]
>
> translate() performs character-to-character mapping, not
> character-to-string. See
> http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xpath-...tion-translate
>
> So as you've written it -- assuming the double comma is just a typo --
> you've said "Retrieve the text value of the current node (.), find all
> instances of '/', and replace them with the '<' character (&lt;)".
>
> If you're trying to replace instances of / with <wbr>/</wbr>, this won't
> do it. See recent discussions of using the substring functions, and
> recursive templates if necessary, to achieve this... and you probably
> want to insert a real <wbr> element rather text which describes one.
>
> --
> () ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Joe Kesselman
> /\ Stamp out HTML e-mail! | System architexture and kinetic poetry[/color]

Thanks for the info. I found the threads on substrings and have it
working.