How to convert to ' ' in xml using xsl.

Hi all,
I have a string downloaded which has the following string
String= text1 <I> text2 </I⁢
I have italics tag in my xml file. But my browser does not identifies italics. So i decided to comment out italics tag in my xml using xsl
So what i need is
String = text1 text2
basically to comment out italics tag alone.
How can i replace <I> to ?
Is there any way in xsl to do the above in a string?
or
Any other ways where i can just remove <I> in my out xml file using xsl?
Thanks in advance.
Menaga.

Hi,
The ultimate solution would be that you also install also a cocoon server (http://cocoon.apache.org/), but that might be overkill.
Have a look at /people/sap.user72/blog/2004/11/10/bsphowto-generate-pdf-output-from-a-bsp for detailed info on creating PDF from BSP.
If you want to use XSL(-FO), you might have a look at things like http://alt-soft.com/products_xml2pdf.jsp to be called as external command.
Eddy

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      <L55 Type="String" Value="Entrada de pedido de venda" />
      <L81 Type="String" Value="å?—æ³¨ã‚ªãƒ¼ãƒ€ãƒ¼å…¥åŠ›" />
      <L86 Type="String" Value="é”€å”®è®¢å?•å½•å…¥" />
      <L87 Type="String" Value="éŠ·å”®è¨‚å–®éŒ„å…¥" />
    </Descriptions>
</Header>
<FormDesignerAppVer Type="String" Value="5.1" SFLOnly="1" />
</Root>I am using the XMLTYPE constructor and passing in the BLOB column and the character set id of the XML data stored in the BLOB column in order to extract and update a node in the XML as follows:
select xmltype(srce_form_detail,873) from SRCE_FORM where 873 above corresponds to the utf-8 encoding of the XML data in the BLOB column i.e. AL32UTF8, but this results in the above error.
I have also tried converting the BLOB to a CLOB first as below where BLOB2CLOB is a function that converts the BLOB to a CLOB:
select xmltype(BLOB2CLOB(srce_form_detail)).EXTRACT('/Root/Header/DB').getStringVal() XMLSrc from SRCE_FORM;This results in the following error:
ORA-31011: XML parsing failed
ORA-19202: Error occurred in XML processing
LPX-00210: expected '<' instead of '¿'
Error at line 1
ORA-06512: at "SYS.XMLTYPE", line 272
ORA-06512: at line 1
Looking at the XML in the BLOB I noticed that it contains a BOM(byte order mark) and this is causing the XML parsing to fail and I don't know how to deal with it and I don't want to simply SUBSTR it out.
What I am trying to achieve is to extract the contents of the DB node in the XML and depending on its value I need to update the 'Value' part of that node. I am stuck at the point of extracting the contents of the DB node.
I hope I have provided enough information and I would appreciate any suggestions on how best to resolve this - my XML knowledge is very limited so I would appreciate any help.
Regards,
Mohinder

Hi Marc
Thanks for your response.
You are correct that the blob contains Japanese and Chinese characters but I was expecting that using the XMLTYPE constructor would convert the character set albeit with some data loss or then not display the Chinese and Japanese characters correctly.
It seems to me that XMLTYPE is not handling/interpreting the BOM contained in the BLOB since even converting the BLOB to CLOB is resulting in an error. If I use SUBSTR and ignore the BOM to extract the XML from the BLOB then it works and as expected the Chinese and Japanese characters are not displayed correctly, they are displayed as '¿' corresponding to the lines beginning with L81, L86 & L87 , see below:
select xmltype(SUBSTR(BLOB2CLOB(srce_form_detail),4)) from SRCE_FORM
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Root CRC="-4065505">
<Header Converted="0">
    <Version Type="String" Value="512" />
    <Revision Type="String" Value="29" />
    <SunSystemsVersion Type="String" Value="" />
    <Date Type="String" Value="20080724" />
    <Time Type="String" Value="165953" />
    <DAG Type="String" Value="" />
    <ChkID Type="String" Value="" />
    <FormType Type="String" Value="1" />
    <DB Type="String" Value="AllBusinessUnits" />
    <FuncID Type="String" Value="SOE" />
    <Status Type="String" Value="" />
    <FileType Type="String" Value="SFL" />
    <Descriptions>
      <Default Type="String" Value="Sales Order Entry" />
      <L01 Type="String" Value="Sales Order Entry" />
      <L33 Type="String" Value="Saisie commande client" />
      <L34 Type="String" Value="Entrada de ¿¿rdenes de venta" />
      <L39 Type="String" Value="Inserimento ordine di vendita" />
      <L49 Type="String" Value="Auftr¿¿ge erfassen" />
      <L55 Type="String" Value="Entrada de pedido de venda" />
      <L81 Type="String" Value="¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿" />
      <L86 Type="String" Value="¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿" />
      <L87 Type="String" Value="¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿" />
    </Descriptions>
</Header>Can you please let me know how I can extract the binary dump of the BLOB and post it on the forum as I don't know how to do this. Below is snippet of the hexadecimal dump, that includes the BOM. I can post the full hexadecimal dump if this can help you to reproduce the error ?
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 XML I posted so far is actually truncated as the full XML is quite big but I showed the beginning of it as this is the section I believe that is not being handled properly. Furthermore I am able to write the BLOB out to a file successfully without any errors using DBMS_LOB & UTL_FILE.PUT_RAW and this seems to handle the BOM without any issues but what I really need to do is read a single node in the XML and update it directly preferably using XMLTYPE directly with the BLOB.
I would welcome your suggestions on how best to read a single node and update it when the XML is contained in a BLOB.
Regards,
Mohinder

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