Re: [xsl] Can't have both " and ' in an XPath literal

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2006-04-23 02:27 +0200, rolf@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> As far as I see, there is no way to have both ' (') and " (")
> in one XPath literal.

Correct ... but literal operands can be constructed easily enough.

> Example:

(copied and modified below)

> But as far as I see, there is no way in XPath 1.0 to write a
> predicate, which selects such values, because it is not possible to
> write an XPath literal which includes both of the possible delimiter
> characters of an XPath literal. (A similar example could be easily
> constructed for text content of an element.)
>
> To all of my knowledge, the XPath 1.0 syntax has no escaping mechanism
> for literal delimiters at all.
>
> Do I miss something?

How about the following?

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . Ken

T:\ftemp>type rolf.xml
<doc>
  <e att="foo">foo</e>
  <e att="a&apos;&quot;b">bar</e>
  <e att="grill">grill</e>
</doc>

T:\ftemp>type rolf.xsl
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>

  <xsl:template match="doc">
    <xsl:for-each select="e[@att=concat(&quot;a'&quot;,'&quot;b')]">
      <xsl:value-of select="."/>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

T:\ftemp>xslt rolf.xml rolf.xsl con
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>bar
T:\ftemp>


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