Remove Special Character in XSLT

Question

Hi All,
Could anyone please help me in removing the special characters  in the XSLT file.
For Example, XSLT tag has like below code,
<Name>
<xsl:valule-of select="Payee/Name"/>
</Name>
where as Payee/name has value of "ORACLE%$ISGREAT".(I can have only A..Z and 0..9, no other than this)
Could any one pls help me.
Regards,
Uva

Answer 1

Which XSLT version are you able to use? 1.0 or 2.0 ?
On 2.0, regular expressions support makes it easy :
<xsl:value-of select="replace(Payee/Name, '[^0-9A-Z]', '')"/>
On 1.0, it's just a bit more complicated, using the double translate trick :
translate($str, translate($str, '0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ', ''), '')
which you can turn into a named template for modularity :
  <xsl:template name="sanitize">
    <xsl:param name="str"/>
    <xsl:value-of select="translate($str, translate($str, '0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ', ''), '')"/>
  </xsl:template>
and call it like this :
<xsl:call-template name="sanitize">
  <xsl:with-param name="str" select="Payee/Name"/>
</xsl:call-template>