(xslt 1.0) How to replace the space with some string from all the text values in xml?

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EDIT: [it started with character replacement and I ended up with discovering string replacements with help of Dimitre Novatchev and Rol

Answer 1

Check out the XPath translate function: http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/#function-translate

If it's not a single character, but a string you have to replace, it takes considerably more effort, and you need a template to recursively replace the string:

Edit:changed match="text()" to match="text()[not(../*)]", so that the input xml need not be a kind of "pretty print XML" .. (so as to remove unwanted replacements of space with "%20" string in such xml file)