Re: [xsl] Replacing an apostrophe in a string

Subject: Re: [xsl] Replacing an apostrophe in a string
From: "Ihe Onwuka ihe.onwuka@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 18:44:32 -0000
was replace available in XSLT1.0?  I think he must be using 2


On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex
gerrit.imsieke@xxxxxxxxx <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Which XSLT version are you using?
> Maybe you could post a full but minimal (almost-) working example so that
> we can better see whatbs going on.
> Your third example should work with XPath 2.
>
> Gerrit
>
>
>
> On 04.09.2014 20:29, Craig Sampson craig.sampson@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> I have to escape several characters, one of which is an apostrophe, in
>> strings that I am writing out to a DOJO script. I've tried everything I
can
>> think of but can't get the apostrophe replace working.
>>
>> Here's of few of the replaces I've tried: (note that all of the double
>> and single quotes are the regular keyboard characters - outlook has
altered
>> them below)
>>
>> <xsl:variable name="newString" select="replace(oldString, '(['])',
>> 'XXX')"/>
>>
>> <xsl:variable name="newString" select="replace(oldString, '&apos;',
>> 'XXX')"/>
>>
>> <xsl:variable name="newString" select="replace(oldString, '''', 'XXX')"/>
>>
>> How can I get this to work?
>>
>> For the examples
>> oldString = that specifies condition's to be evaluated
>>
>> newString should be = that specifies conditionXXXs to be evaluated
>>
>> Thanks,
>>    Craig

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