RE: [xsl] String manipulations with quotes

["Ross Ken" <Ken.Ross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Try a recursive template.  For example (untested code)

<xsl:template match="text()" name="remove-quotes">
	<xsl:param name="input" select="."/>
	<xsl:variable name="quote" select='"'/>
	<xsl:choose>
		<xsl:when test="contains($input,$quote)">
			<xsl:call-template name="remove-quotes">
				<xsl:with-param name="input" select="concat(substring-before($input,$quote),'&quote;',substring-after($input,$quote))"/>
		</xsl:when>
		<xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of select="$input"/></xsl:otherwise>
	</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

HTH,

Ken Ross
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-----Original Message-----
From: Betty Harvey [mailto:harvey@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, 11 April 2003 8:22 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [xsl] String manipulations with quotes



I don't have control over the authoring.  The quotes are already
embedded in the file.  I can't change all the " to the character
entity because it would change them all.   I could bring the file
into XMetal and convert the quotes with a global find and replace.
However, the file is 8 megabytes long.  I could probably do this
and start the search and replace this evening and maybe it will
be finished in the morning |-).

It just seems like this should be doable in XSLT.

Betty

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On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, David Christiansen wrote:

> Here is a table I put together for reserved symbols.  The semicolon
> afterwards is required
> Char	String
> -------	----------
> &	&amp;
> <	&lt;
> >	&gt;
> '	&apos;
> "	&quot;
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Betty Harvey [mailto:harvey@xxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 3:53 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] String manipulations with quotes
> 
> 
> 
> I am trying to grab text within quotes.  XSLT is not being cooperative.  
> Does anyone have any tricks to grab the quote. I would expect it would see
> the double quote in the single quote as 'text' and not a delimiter.  
> However, it sees it as a closing quote. I tried the 'old vi backslash
> trick'but it didn't work.  If it helps, here is my 'snippet'.
> 
> <xsl:variable name="name1">
>      <xsl:value-of select="substring-after ($definition, '"')"/>
> </xsl:variable>
> <xsl:variable name="name2">
>      <xsl:value-of select="substring-before ($name1,  '"')"/>
> </xsl:variable>
> 
> TIA.
> 
> Betty
> 
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