RE: [xsl] Javascript in XSLT

Subject: RE: [xsl] Javascript in XSLT
From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 08:36:58 +0100
> No need to escape the parentheses, by the way. And you're 
> right, XSLT is XML, so it gets parsed first. &apos; is no 
> better than a literal ', because by the 
> time it gets into XPath/XSLT land, it's an apostrophe either 
> way, and XPath 
> doesn't have a mechanism for escaping them. Seems like they 
> could've used 
> backslashes.. wonder why they didn't.

XPath 2.0 allows the apostrophe to be doubled, as in SQL:

<xsl:value-of select="'I haven''t a clue'"/>

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