Re: [xsl] most efficient escape quotes?

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2009-02-10 11:42 -0500, Robert Koberg wrote:
> With XSL 1.0 and XPath 1.0 I had used recursion to escape quotes.
> Using XPath 2.0, is the most efficient 'escape quotes' (\") the
> following:
>
> <xsl:sequence select="string-join(tokenize(., '&quot;'), '\&quot;')"/>

I would use:

<xsl:sequence select='replace(., """", "\\""")'/>

> Is there a more efficient (fastest, least memory) way?

I suspect replace() is a lot faster than tokenizing and re-joining.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . .  Ken

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