Re: [xsl] String manipulations with quotes

Subject: Re: [xsl] String manipulations with quotes
From: Jeni Tennison <jeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 09:34:15 +0100
Wendell wrote:
> (But note you can't say translate(.,'&quot;','&apos;'), since once
> it is parsed the stylesheet processor still chokes on
> translate(.,'&quot;',''') -- in a case like that you have to resort
> to binding the problem character to a variable.)

Note that in XPath 2.0 you can double up a " in a "-delimited string
literal or a ' in a '-delimited string literal in order to escape it.
So you can do:

  translate(., '&quot;', '''')

to change " into '.

Cheers,

Jeni

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