How to use the “translate” Xpath function on a node-set

Question

I have an XML document that contains items with dashes I\'d like to strip

e.g.

   
      a-         


        

Answer 1

I know I can find-replace a single item using this xpath

/xmldoc/items/item[1]/translate(text(),'-','')

Which will return

"abc"

however, how do I do this for the entire set?

This cannot be done with a single XPath 1.0 expression.

Use the following XPath 2.0 expression to produce a sequence of strings, each being the result of the application of the translate() function on the string value of the corresponding node:

/xmlDoc/items/item/translate(.,'-', '')