RE: [xsl] A way to use Single quote or double quote in XML and/or output it into HTML & FO without resorting to CDATA in the XML?

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sergiu,

At 10:54 AM 10/1/2003, you wrote:
> Does anybody nows why &quote; is so hard to handle?

Because you have to get it past *both* the XML parser (which the escaping 
of " into &quote; will do) and the XPath expression parser.

E.g. <xsl:value-of select='translate(.,"&quote;","-")'/>

the XML parser resolves this to

translate(.,""","-")

which doesn't make much sense in XPath.

The usual workaround is to bind the problem character (or string) to a 
variable, so you can evaluate the expression

translate(.,$quote,"-")

which isn't a problem.

Make more sense now? This double layer of indirection for "hot" characters 
is part of the price we pay for the expression language wrapped in XML 
syntax. If XPath had a completely different set of significant characters 
(delimiters) from XML -- things would be confusing in a different way.

Cheers,
Wendell



> Sergiu
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