RE: [xsl] hoe to use "(" within a variable

[Vinoth Palaniappan <vinoth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sergey,
	You said "...and allow simple external processor to serialize
resulting XML to actual C code." Kindly let me know what is the external
processor i can use for doing such a job. Thank you!

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sergey Groznyh [mailto:gsm@xxxxxx]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 12:49 PM
>To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Cc: Vinoth Palaniappan
>Subject: Re: [xsl] hoe to use "(" within a variable
>
>
>>>>>> "Jeni" == Jeni Tennison <jeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>    Jeni> use single quotes, as follows:
>
>    Jeni> <xsl:variable name="entering_log"
>    Jeni> select='&apos;sprintf(log_str, "\n%s: %d: %s: %s", __FILE__,
>    Jeni> __LINE__, fn, "Entering"); log_func();&apos;' />
>
>    Jeni> or you could use double quotes and escape the double quotes
>    Jeni> in the attribute value, as follows:
>
>    Jeni> <xsl:variable name="entering_log" select="'sprintf(log_str,
>    Jeni> &quot;\n%s: %d: %s: %s&quot;, __FILE__, __LINE__, fn,
>    Jeni> &quot;Entering&quot;); log_func();'" />
>
>Also, it's almost always a bad idea to generate code in some language
>*directly* from XSLT: you will always have to escape things, and as a
>result, XSLT code will not look very readable.  Instead, you may
>represent output as a [subset of] target language grammar, like this:
>
>    <stmtseq>
>      <stmt>
>        <funcall>
>          <name>sprintf</name>
>          <arglist>
>            <arg type="ident">log_str</arg>
>            <arg type="string">\n%s: %d: %s: %s</arg>
>            <arg type="ident">__FILE__</arg>
>            <arg type="ident">__LINE__</arg>
>            <arg type="ident">fn</arg>
>            <arg type="string">Entering</arg>
>          </arglist>
>        </funcall>
>      </stmt>
>      <stmt>
>        <funcall>
>          <name>log_func</name>
>          <void />
>        </funcall>
>      </stmt>
>    </stmtseq>
>
>and allow simple external processor to serialize resulting XML to
>actual C code.
>
>-- 
>SM Groznyh                            "Under the wide and heavy VAX
>gsm@xxxxxx                             Dig my grave and let me 
>relax..."
>

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