Hi,
I am attempting to remove middle-dot with using the function translate. I have a 2003 word XML file that when translated contains Middle – Dot. http://www.fileformat.info/info/unic...00b7/index.htm

I use the following code to translate, and remove certain characters that is not supported by another program. It does not fully support UTF-8 and I have to work around that.

I understand that some of the characters below will be garbage. The first character is the most important anyways.
In the output I find the
I did a OD dump of part of the file and it was c2b7 (which corresponds to UTF-8 Middle dot).

I am using the JAXP XSLT processor, and have an input of UTF-8 characters with an intended output of UTF-8.

Thank you,

Vinay Anantharaman

>I am using the JAXP XSLT processor

JAXP is an interface, not a processor. There are several XSLT processors that implement the JAXP interface, including Xalan, Saxon, and Oracle.

translate() works in terms of Unicode codepoints. The encoding of your input and output files (including your stylesheet) are irrelevant. The codepoint for middle dot is xB7, so you just need translate($input, '&_#xb7;', '') (omitting the "_" which is just to confuse the mailer).

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference