Re: [xsl] How to remove a single quote?

["Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 31/07/2024 21:51, dvint@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I have content like this:
>
> <topic file="fs_task_with_collapse_in_tabs.dita"
> B B B B title="FORMAT: task inside a tab using collapsed sections"
> B B B B chunk="child"
> B B B B B B B  tabtitle="'Collapse Sections'">
>
> Notice the single quotes in the tabtitle attrbiute. I would like to
> get just the text out of that attribute without the quotes. I've been
> trying to use substring-before/after like this but I get no result
>
> <xsl:attribute name="tabtitle" select="substring-after(@tabtitle,
> '&apos;')"/>
>
> I'm getting an unmatched quote message and if I switch to ''' I get
> the same message. I thought the entity would escape this. If I use
> &quot;, I don't get the error, but my result is empty as that
> character doesn't exist.
>
> What is the proper way to escape and match a ' ?
>
>

I suggested

<xsl:attribute name="tabtitle" select="translate(@tabtitle,
&quot;'&quot;, &quot;&quot;)"/>


and that works for me
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(adapted for matching directly on the attribute node)