Re: [xsl] Escaping single-quotes - an old chestnut I suspect but won't respond to any amount of Googling...

["Gav..." <brightoncomputers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<quote who="Matt Poff">
> Hi,
>
> I have an XSLT file which is generating a number of SQL statements from
> an XHTML file (output method is set to "text"). I need to escape
> apostrophe and quote characters in text nodes and have tried using the
> code below:
>
>     <xsl:function name="hf:escapechars" >
>         <xsl:param name="currnode" />
>         <xsl:variable name="apos" select='"&apos;"' />
>         <xsl:variable name="quot" select="'&quot;'" />
>         <xsl:variable name="backslash">\</xsl:variable>
>
>         <xsl:value-of
> select="replace($currnode,'$apos','concat($backslash,$apos))"/>
>     </xsl:function>
>
> This generates "Description: E Invalid replacement string in replace():
> \ character must be followed by \ or $". How can i successfully escape
> the backslash so it will output?

Have you tried the error suggestion such as :-

<xsl:variable name="backslash">\\</xsl:variable>

Gav...

>
> Thanks for you help,
> Matt
>


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Gav...