xslt1.0 replace is not working

Question

I have URLs with some special characters and i would like to replace them and I am using xslt 1.0 so I am writing the code as below.

Answer 1

The provided "replace" template is working.

To confirm this use the following transformation:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>

    <xsl:template match="/*">
        <xsl:variable name="link">
            <xsl:call-template name="string-replace-all">
                <xsl:with-param name="text" select="@FileRef"/>
                <xsl:with-param name="replace">'</xsl:with-param>
                <xsl:with-param name="by" select="'%27'"/>
            </xsl:call-template>
        </xsl:variable>

        "<xsl:value-of select="$link"/>"
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template name="string-replace-all">
        <xsl:param name="text"/>
        <xsl:param name="replace"/>
        <xsl:param name="by"/>
        <xsl:choose>
            <xsl:when test="contains($text,$replace)">
                <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($text,$replace)"/>
                <xsl:value-of select="$by"/>
                <xsl:call-template name="string-replace-all">
                    <xsl:with-param name="text" select="substring-after($text,$replace)"/>
                    <xsl:with-param name="replace" select="$replace"/>
                    <xsl:with-param name="by" select="$by"/>
                </xsl:call-template>
            </xsl:when>
            <xsl:otherwise>
                <xsl:value-of select="$text"/>
            </xsl:otherwise>
        </xsl:choose>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

when the transformation is applied on this XML document:

<t FileRef="Abc'Xyz'Tuv"/>

the wanted, correct result is produced:

"Abc%27Xyz%27Tuv"

The problem may be in the way you specify the replace parameter (uneven number of apostrophes in the expression):

Instead of:

<xsl:with-param name="replace" select="'&#39;'"/>

Use:

<xsl:with-param name="replace">'</xsl:with-param>