[xsl] Re: Escaping quotes in XPath expressions

["Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>]

<yguaba@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On 15 Nov 2003 at 14:53, Dimitre Novatchev wrote:
>
>
> > translate() can only translate a character into another character or to
> > nothing. It is not possible using translate() to translate a character
> > into two or more characters.
> >
> > For such tasks it is convenient to use the "str-map" template from
> > FXSL(...)
>
> ------------------------------
>
> On 15 Nov 2003 at 13:48, Michael Kay wrote:
>
> > <xsl:variable name="quot">"</xsl:variable>
> > <xsl:variable name="apos">'</xsl:variable>
> > <xsl:value-of select="translate(., $quot, $apos)"/>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> First of all, many thanks to Michael and Dimitre for replying to my
message.
>
> I had actually thought of using variables, but besides the problem Dimitre
pointed out,
> I've read that in XSLT 1.1 the value of a variable *must* be contained in
a 'select'
> attribute, or else you'll be creating a result tree fragment, which in
XSLT 1.1 would be
> illegal. In other words, if I didn't want to write obsolete code, my
variable would have to
> look something like this:

This is not "obsolete code" -- you should have tried running it before
publishing such a wrong conclusion.


=====
Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL




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