Re: [xsl] 2.0 feature request

[Eric van der Vlist <vdv@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeni Tennison wrote:
> 
> Just to point out that when you put that into an expression in XSLT
> you get:
> 
>  /emp[rating = "Poor"]/@mgr -> emp/@mgr -> emp/name
> 
> (the > signs have to be escaped in attribute values) which is slightly

"have to" or "may" ?

XML 1.0 states:

The right angle bracket (>) may be represented using the string ">",
and must, for compatibility, be escaped using ">" or a character
reference when it appears in the string "]]>" in content, when that
string is not marking the end of a CDATA section.

and

[10]  AttValue ::=   
            '"' ([^<&"] | Reference)* '"' 
         |  "'" ([^<&'] | Reference)* "'"

and you can keep your ">" unescaped in attributes.

It's a reason why I often reverse my XPath tests to use ">" rather the
"<" for readability ;=)

Eric

> less easily readable. It would be nice (i.e. preferential but fairly
> low priority) if XPath 2.0 could steer away from using characters that
> have to be escaped in attribute values (though it's obviously already
> using some, and there are only so many characters you can use).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jeni
> 
> ---
> Jeni Tennison
> http://www.jenitennison.com/
> 
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