translate

The translate() function substitutes characters in a supplied string with nominated replacement characters. It can also be used to remove nominated characters from a string. For example, the result of «translate('ABC-123', '-'/') » is the string «ABC/123 » .

Argument	Data Type	Meaning
value	xs:string?	The supplied string
from	xs:string	The list of characters to be replaced
to	xs:string	The list of replacement characters
Result	xs:string?	A string derived from the supplied string, but with those characters that appear in the second argument replaced by the corresponding characters from the third argument, or removed if there is no corresponding character