RE: Implementing " and ' in literals

[Matt Sergeant <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Kay Michael wrote:

> > So what do people think of this? It allows you to do the 
> > following in your XSLT:
> > 
> > <xsl:value-of select="&quot;I'm feeling 
> > &amp;quot;sad&amp;quot;&quot;"/>
> > 
> > Which gives you a literal of:
> > 
> > I'm feeling "sad"
> > 
> 
> I'm feeling sad too. If you're going to create extensions to XPath syntax,
> at least define syntax that will be rejected by other people's XPath
> processors, rather than syntax that is correct according to the standard but
> means something different. E.g. define a new kind of literal enclosed
> between grave accents within which you can introduce any kind of escape
> conventions you like. (And even then, you need to give up all hope of
> claiming that your processor conforms with the standard).

Actually using C style backslash escaping would be rejected by other
parsers, I believe. So that's probably a better long term solution (and
it's prettier too!).

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