Stripping null characters from XML elements

[Hexonx]

I'm transforming xml and want to strip out null characters in the elements.

The elements look like this:
<myEl>&#0;&#0;&#0;</myEl>

My XSL rules look like this:
<xsl:if test=&quot;string-length(/myEl) > 0&quot;>
<outEl><xsl:value-of select=&quot;/myEl&quot;/></outEl>
</xsl:if>

For the 'select=' attribute, I've tried:
- translate(/myEl, &#0, 'x')
- translate(/myEl, '&#0', 'x')
- translate(/myEl, '&#0;', 'x')
- translate(/myEl, '&#0', 'x')
- translate(/myEl, '&#0;', 'x')
- translate(string(/myEl), '&#0;', 'x')
- translate(string(/myEl), '&#0;', 'x')

I've also tried <xsl:strip-space> at the root, but no effect.

I'm translating null to 'x' for now so I know that I'm capturing the nulls correctly, but never get a match; my output always has <myEl> with nulls embedded in it. The output xml is otherwise well-formed. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

 

[Hexonx]

I solved the problem, which had nothing to do with the XPath queries. My XSL stylesheet is a Content file in a VS.NET project. I forgot that VS DOESN'T copy content files to the output folder. Thus, all of my stylesheet edits were never used!

This is what I ultimately used to remove the nulls:
translate(/myEl, '&#0', '')