Re: [xsl] Putting apostrophes around a string

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

At 2009-03-27 09:50 +0100, Anna Svdling wrote:
> I'm putting together a string using this code snippet:
> <xsl:value-of select="concat('Entering state: ',$sname)" />
>
> Now, I would like to change the string by putting apostrophes around
> it so that the output is
> 'Entering state: name'
>
> Is it possible to do this and, in that case, how? I've tried with
> apostrophe and &apos; but didn't manage to get it to work in any of
> the different ways I used it.
> I'm using XSLT 1.0.

You have to distinguish between attribute
specification delimiters and string delimiters.

The following should work:

  <xsl:value-of select='concat("&apos;Entering state: ",$sname,"&apos;")' />

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . Ken

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