XSLT multiple string replacement with recursion

Question

I have been attempting to perform multiple (different) string replacement with recursion and I have hit a roadblock. I have sucessfully gotten the first replacement to work

Answer 1

This transformation is fully parameterized and doesn't need any tricks with default namespaces:

 
 

 
  
   

   

  
  
   quick
   slow
  
  
   fox
   elephant
  
  
   brown
   white
  
 

 

 
  
  

  

    
    
     
       
     
     
       
     
    

    
      
    
  
 

when it is applied on this XML document:

The quick
brown fox

the wanted, correct result is produced:

The slow
white elephant

Explanation:

The text is scanned from left to right and at any position, if the remaining string starts with one of the specified patterns, then the starting substring is replaced by the replacement specified for the firat matching patterns.

Do note: If we have search patterns:

   "relation"   --> "mapping" 
   "corelation" --> "similarity"

in the above order, and text:

   "corelation"

then this solution produces the more correct result:

"similarity"

and the currently accepted solution by @Alejandro) produces:

"comapping"

Edit: With a small update we get another improvement: If at a given location more than one replace is possible, we perform the longest replace.

    
    

    
        
            

            

        
        
            quick
            slow
        
        
            fox
            elephant
        
        
            brown
            white
        
    

    
     
      
       
     
    

    

    
        
        
              
            

            
                
                    
                
                
                    
                
            

            
                
            
        
    

Thus, if we have two reps such as "core" --> "kernel" and "corelation" --> "similarity", The second would be used for a text containing the word "corelation", regardless of how the reps are ordered.