Re: [xsl] Apostrophe escaping in contains().

["J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm@xxxxxxxx>]

Ben Trafford wrote:
>     I'm trying to get a test using contains() to look for an apostrophe. 
> My XSLT processor (Saxon) keeps telling me that I need whitespace 
> between attributes.
>
>     The fragment I'm working with looks like this:
>
> <xsl:when test="contains($text, '"&apos;"')> some stuff </xsl:when>
>
>     I've searched the FAQs, and they report that I'm escaping the 
> apostrophe correctly.

Well, not exactly: for the parser, the attribute value ends after the
double quote before the escaped &apos;
Do you really want to look for the substring "'" (double quote -
apostrophe - double quote)? If so, try
  <xsl:variable name="apos" select='"&apos;"'/>
  ...
    test="contains($text,concat('&quot;',$apos,'&quot;'))"
In the variable's select: the first apostrophe is the XML attribute
value quote, the double quote starts an XPath string, the &apos; is
the content of the string, then everything is closed.

J.Pietschmann



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