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RE: apostrophe in paramter causing output problems





>From: Mike Brown [mailto:mike@skew.org]

>However you have a bigger problem in that you misunderstand how
>translate() works. It works like the Unix 'tr' utility -- it only
>replaces single characters.

>You need a recursive template to do arbitrary string replacement.
>See http://skew.org/xml/stylesheets/replace/ for one such example.
>You'll do this:


im not sure what you mean by this.
when i set $Description to "This This This"
and call

<td>    								
  <input name="txtDescription" size="60"
value='{translate($Description,"This","That")}'/> 
</td>

i get an output of "That That That"


jeremy

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