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nice xslt!

Nice post.
I have written a string replace template too.
Check it out
http://lavbox.blogspot.com/2008/05/xsl-template-to-split-to-string.html

Thanks a bunch for posting this - a software I'm using doesn't have the XSLT2 engine and I had to implement this functionality quickly in version 1 compliant code.

Thank you for your post!!

Very good example for String replace...

Man you saved my life!!! Thanx a lot!!!

Thank you, very good... but what if I want to replace only the first occurrence?

To only replace the first occurrence, simply take out the recursion call. Something like this:

<xsl:template name="string-replace-all">
<xsl:param name="text"/>
<xsl:param name="replace"/>
<xsl:param name="by"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($text, $replace)">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($text,$replace)"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$by"/>
<xsl:with-param name="text" select="substring-after($text,$replace)"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$text"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

Thanks - that almost made life easy for me until I realized that all i needed for my particular case was the translate() function! So if anyone else sees this post and uses xslt too infrequently to remember how to do really basic things - translate will replace any instances of EACH CHARACTER with another, so it's good for single char stuff like stripping slashes!
http://www.w3schools.com/Xpath/xpath_functions.asp

thank you, thank you!!

good
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Just wanted to say : thank you :-)

How can we use above function to replace a quote (") by \" in given string.

how do we use above function to replace blank by <br> or next line? Pls let me know.

why is the code not available for copy/paste????

Bitmaps? for code? Hello? Are you sane?

Dude Code Looks good but Need to be able to copy pate...gr8 work and help though ...u are a life saver

thank you

And here the whole stuff for copy-and-paste:

<xsl:template name="string-replace-all">
<xsl:param name="text" />
<xsl:param name="replace" />
<xsl:param name="by" />
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($text, $replace)">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($text,$replace)" />
<xsl:value-of select="$by" />
<xsl:call-template name="string-replace-all">
<xsl:with-param name="text"
select="substring-after($text,$replace)" />
<xsl:with-param name="replace" select="$replace" />
<xsl:with-param name="by" select="$by" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$text" />
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

A simple code for a great solution. Many thanks man.

Where's the code download?
Here is the sample test typed out. (Thanks to the person who typed out the implementation).

Thanks for the post.


<xsl:variable name="myVar">
<xsl:call-template name="string-replace-all">
<xsl:with-param name="text" select="'This is a sample text : {ReplaceMe} and {ReplaceMe}'" />
<xsl:with-param name="replace" select="'{ReplaceMe}'" />
<xsl:with-param name="by" select="'String.Replace() in XSLT'" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:variable>

This is what exactly I am looking for. Ton of thanks to you :-).

Thanks for the solutions, it helps!
But is there a way for me to replace "\n" Or any regular expression? Thanks in advance.

Because I tried it and it worked with me from first time, with now headache I though to comment and thank you about it.
Clean good snippet.

helpfull template

Thanks so much for this simplified code. Nice one ....

It save my lift. Thanks!

@meng:
".But is there a way for me to replace "\n"."
Yes you can replace the two chars 13 and 13 to what you may wish to replace them with. That is you can set the parameter as such:
<xsl:with-param name="replace" select="'&#13;&#10;'" />

how can i replace double quotes(") with single quote(')

Thank you. It works fine.

Its a great post, it takes a good amount of hardwork and dedication to discover these piece of codes.
It is highly appreciated and thanks a ton to you...

How about
translate()?
same syntax and same result! and nativ!

@Abhishek Try &quot; and &apos;

@sierra I agree. translate() worked great for me.

Thank you! :)

Here is how to replace multiple fragments in a string. This a kind of "translate":

<xsl:template name="string-translate">
<xsl:param name="text" />
<xsl:param name="replace" />
<xsl:param name="by" />
<xsl:param name="delimiter" select="';'"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="string-length($replace) > 0 and string-length($by) > 0">
<xsl:variable name="replace-delimited">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($replace, $delimiter)">
<xsl:value-of select="$replace" />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="concat($replace, $delimiter)" />
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="by-delimited">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($by, $delimiter)">
<xsl:value-of select="$by" />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="concat($by, $delimiter)" />
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="temp" >
<xsl:call-template name="string-replace-all" >
<xsl:with-param name="text" select="$text" />
<xsl:with-param name="replace" select="substring-before($replace-delimited, $delimiter)" />
<xsl:with-param name="by" select="substring-before($by-delimited, $delimiter)" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:call-template name="string-translate" >
<xsl:with-param name="text" select="$temp" />
<xsl:with-param name="replace" select="substring-after($replace, $delimiter)" />
<xsl:with-param name="by" select="substring-after($by, $delimiter)" />
<xsl:with-param name="delimiter" select="$delimiter"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$text" />
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

The template is called as follows:

<xsl:call-template name="string-translate" >
<xsl:with-param name="text" select="http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle%2Ecom" />
<xsl:with-param name="replace" select="'%2F %3A %2E'" />
<xsl:with-param name="by" select="'/ : .'" />
<xsl:with-param name="delimiter" select="' '"/>
</xsl:call-template>

The result of the a.m. call will be: http://google.com

How to call this function multiple time?

something equivallent in C# as string.Replace(...).Replace(..)

I am writing a generic XML to CSV xslt file, and I needed to double all quotes in the character fields since I am putting quotes around them.

I was able to do this in no time with your code. Many, many thanks...

I need two double quotes replaced by an empty string. How do I do that in xsl? Thanks in advance.

I tried with the string-replace-all function. It is working for most of the cases. But in one case alone I am getting the below exception,

Error
---------------------------
A Runtime Error has occurred.
Do you wish to Debug?

Line: 176
Error: The XSL processor stack has overflowed - probable cause is infinite template recursion.


---------------------------
Yes No
---------------------------
Can you give me some idea how it happened?

hey this works so swiftly... cool

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What you posted is very good. I have been looking for a String.Replace functionality in XSLT 1.0, but I would have never hoped to find something that would allow me to take three parameters and recursively process the input text string. Thanks for uploading this!

Improved version for multiple string replace:

[code]<xsl:template name="string-replace-all">
<xsl:param name="text"/>
<xsl:param name="replace"/>
<xsl:param name="by"/>
<xsl:param name="separator"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$separator and contains($replace, $separator)">
<xsl:variable name="text2">
<xsl:call-template name="string-replace-all">
<xsl:with-param name="text" select="$text"/>
<xsl:with-param name="replace" select="substring-before($replace, $separator)"/>
<xsl:with-param name="by" select="substring-before($by, $separator)"/>
<xsl:with-param name="separator" select="$separator"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:call-template name="string-replace-all">
<xsl:with-param name="text" select="$text2"/>
<xsl:with-param name="replace" select="substring-after($replace, $separator)"/>
<xsl:with-param name="by" select="substring-after($by, $separator)"/>
<xsl:with-param name="separator" select="$separator"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($text, $replace)">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($text,$replace)"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$by"/>
<xsl:call-template name="string-replace-all">
<xsl:with-param name="text" select="substring-after($text,$replace)"/>
<xsl:with-param name="replace" select="$replace"/>
<xsl:with-param name="by" select="$by"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$text"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
[/code]

Thank you. This works nicely.

Thanks for posting this! S I didn't have to reinvent the wheel. I recently incorporated the template in my JSON builder (http://ruediger-plantiko.blogspot.com/2011/09/ein-json-builder-in-abap.html).

Dear's

Assuming that Parameters are not passed from param & will be declard within the XSLT script.Can anybody Pls help me to get the exact code.

awesome. thanks!

Very helpful, saved me the trouble of having to write my own. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you sir

Any hints on how to replace the ampersand?

For setting up the replace parameter I tried:
<xsl:with-param name="replace" select="'&'" />
<xsl:with-param name="by" select="'%26'" />
And that threw an error.

I then tried:
<xsl:with-param name="replace" select="'&amp;'" />
<xsl:with-param name="by" select="'%26'" />
And no error, however, the return variable was an empty string.

I ended up using some crazy combination of FIND and REPLACE function use in a calculated column.

What I'm trying to accomplish is present a list of contractors in a custom list where clicking their name will direct the user to another page with the contractor's name as a querystring value. Something like "Father & Son Contractor" would throw off my querystring since the ampersand is the delimiter for multiple querystring params.

good one.

Very good useful material..helped me in critical circumstance in my project .... Thanks a lot

Hi, I tried to use above function for replacing &lt with < but it failed. I copied same function but it does not accept '<' or "<". See the error:
The content of elements must consist of well-formed character data or markup.

Can anybody please tell me how to replace &lt with < sign? thanks. Yeshwant

Does anybody know if there is there an "ends-with" type function.. whereby I can detect if the string ends with a dot, and if so I can then trim it off?

I am trying to have some text followed by ... (3 dots)

but if the text already has a dot, then I end up with 4 dots (....)

A niggle I know, but would be good if I could fix it.

Excellent; thanks.

For those using XSLT with PHP, here's a version which use <xsl:processing-instruction /> :

[code]<xsl:template name="string-replace-all">
<xsl:param name="text" />
<xsl:param name="replace" />
<xsl:param name="by" />
<xsl:processing-instruction name="php">
echo str_replace('<xsl:value-of select="$replace" />', '<xsl:value-of select="$by" />', '<xsl:value-of select="$text" />');
</xsl:processing-instruction>
</xsl:template>[/code]