for example i have two string "sendApplicationToManager" and "Manager",we need to compare them,if first string contains second string ,cut the matched string,the first string would turn out to be "sendApplicationTo".i tried to use translate(string 1,string2 ,'') ,but the result is not what i want.it turned into "sdApplicatioTo".
help me ,thanks.

if the second pattern supposed to be only at the end of the first pattern, you can use

translate() is quite inappropriate here, it converts individual characters.

You basically seem to want the logic

if contains($a, $b)
then concat(substring-before($a, $b), substring-after($a, $b)
else (:I suspect:) $a

(except that you'll have to apply that recursively if you want to eliminate multiple occurrences of $b).

In 2.0 you can use the replace() function.



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