RE: replacing ALL chars in a string while transforming

[Andrew Welch]

> <root>
> <description>
> Rugged and Ready ®even ±0.5 dB works underwater (up to 5 ft.) 
> </description> </root>
> 
> And the resultant should be:
> 
> <root>
> <description>
> Rugged and Ready &amp#174;even &amp#202;0.5 dB works 
> underwater (up to 5
> ft.)
> </description>
> </root>
> 
> As I said, the xsl code I presented in my previous email 
> works, but I need to replace the 2 strings in a SINGLE shot, 
> to make the processing fast and efficient.

Well you will either have to write a recursive string processing template 
that's converts '&' into '&amp;' or use disable-output-escaping, but I still 
think you really want a different solution :)

cheers
andrew