trying to remove quote before displaying a xml element

[yahoo182]

Hi there,
There is an xml element that has quotes around it like so:
<book>"the old boy"</book>

Is it possibel to remove to quote before displaying the value of this elemnt with xsl ?

 

[JontyMC]

One way would be:

<xsl:value-of select="substring(book, 2, string-length(book)-2)"/>

Jon

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