Matching attributes that contain both &pos; and "

[Paul_Dick@xxxxxxxxx]

The xpath states in section 1:
To avoid a quotation mark in an expression being interpreted by the XML
processor as terminating the attribute value the quotation mark can be
entered as a character reference (" or '). Alternatively, the
expression can use single quotation marks if the XML attribute is delimited
with double quotation marks or vice-versa.

However the following example proves troublesome for XT, Saxon
and Xalan. All of them generate an error.
--XML Source:--
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<channel>
  <location name=' "x"  &apos;a z'/>
</channel>

--XSLT Stylesheet:--
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
                              version="1.0">

<xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="channel/location[@name=' "x" &apos;a z']">
  <xsl:value-of select="@name"/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

This might be a flaw with the spec,  but given that it isn't, does anyone
have a work around for how to match this attribute.

Paul


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