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But I'm afraid Cihan might be talking about a case in which he has "smart quotes" in tags, in lieu of the correct "dumb quotes" (paired " or ' characters).

If this is the case, Cihan, your XML is lying to you: it's not XML, but merely almost-XML. An XML parser won't parse it.

Pre-process it with the string-processing language of your choice, such as Perl, Python or sed. It can't be done in XSLT.

(Trying to exercise his own mind-reading powers),
Wendell

At 11:03 AM 5/10/2002, David wrote:

> What is the best way to get rid of curly quotes/smart quotes in XML to
> XML transformation. I have no control over incoming XML document.

replace by nothing or replace by straight quotes?

translate(.,'&#201C;&#201D;','""')

will replace the left and right " by '


translate(.,'&#201C;&#201D;','')

will remove them,

David

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