replace characters in string in xsl

[chriskaza81]

hello i am very new in xsl ,xml so ....forgive me if i make spuped questions..


well i have the string e.g. <script> blabla bla </script> i want to replace in xsl the special characters like < ,/ with encoded like '#231'
my real problem is wich replace function to use to do it in the whole string?? i know how to do it in java,vb6,javascript ... but i can't find out how to do it in xsl. code example would be very helpfull!!!

thanks in advance

[jkmyoung]

Fairly common request:

 <!-- reusable replace-string function -->
 <xsl:template name="replace-string">
    <xsl:param name="text"/>
    <xsl:param name="from"/>
    <xsl:param name="to"/>
 
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="contains($text, $from)">
 
    <xsl:variable name="before" select="substring-before($text, $from)"/>
    <xsl:variable name="after" select="substring-after($text, $from)"/>
    <xsl:variable name="prefix" select="concat($before, $to)"/>
 
    <xsl:value-of select="$before"/>
    <xsl:value-of select="$to"/>
        <xsl:call-template name="replace-string">
      <xsl:with-param name="text" select="$after"/>
      <xsl:with-param name="from" select="$from"/>
      <xsl:with-param name="to" select="$to"/>
    </xsl:call-template>
      </xsl:when> 
      <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:value-of select="$text"/>  
      </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>            
 </xsl:template>
 

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo...T/Recipe/65426

[chriskaza81]

i still can'not understand ....

[jkmyoung]

<xsl:call-template name="replace-string">
    <xsl:with-param name="text" select="script"/>
    <xsl:with-param name="from" select="'&lt;'"/>
    <xsl:with-param name="to" select="'#231'"/>
</xsl:call-template>
 

Note, < has been unescaped from &lt; by this forum.

[chriskaza81]

thanks a lot i tested in Oxigen it is work as expected, but not i my project probably because it is oracle database and for some reason it doesn't work