Subject: Re: [xsl] Analyze-string Regex to Match Content within Curly Braces From: "Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 20:47:18 -0000 |
On Tue, 2020-11-17 at 13:58 +0000, Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > A suggestion that I've thought about from time to time: > > If an attribute in XSLT expects an expression or an AVT, then a > leading undoubled "}" in the attribute value indicates that is to be > treated as a plain string. Sometimes i end up with braces in comments, or using entities, in order to keep them balanced, as it's an incredibly useful too to check balancing when there are cryptic errors. More importantly, it's weird magic that will catch someone out when they want to replace a close curly brace with a close paren. I like, expand-attributes="no" to go with expand-text="no" though. If we followed Simon's old suggestion, we'd use single quotes round attributes to be treated literally and double for AVTs, but none of the main XML parsers report that information. Liam -- Liam Quin,B https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/ Available for XML/Document/Information Architecture/XSLT/ XSL/XQuery/Web/Text Processing/A11Y training, work & consulting. Barefoot Web-slave, antique illustrations: B http://www.fromoldbooks.org
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