Re: [xsl] Enclosing sequence items in single quotes

["Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 19/10/2007, cknell@xxxxxxxxxx <cknell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I need some help in constructing a string from a sequence. Consider this template:
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
>     <xsl:variable name='pf-codes'><xsl:value-of select="position-translation/position/code[@pf='pf']"/></xsl:variable>
>     <xsl:variable name="pf-codes-string" select="for $s in $pf-codes return $s"/>
>      <xsl:value-of select="$pf-codes-string"/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> This produces output like this:
>
> AA BB CC DD EE FF GG ...
>
> I need output like this:
>
> 'AA','BB','CC','DD','EE','FF','GG', ..., 'ZZ'
>
> Note that the last item is not followed by a comma.
>
> I haven't moved on to the question of using position()=last() to bring about this last requirement.
>
> I'm having trouble constructing an expression that will enclose each item in the sequence in quotes (single).
>
> Please point me in the right direction. Thanks

select="string-join($pf-codes/concat('''', ., ''''), ',')"


cheers
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