Re: [xsl] escape quotation marks in replace function

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

On 03/10/2024 21:21, Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx wrote:
>
> See https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-31/#prod-xpath31-EscapeQuot, you
> should be able to use two double quote characters "".
>

but as you are inside of XML double quote attribute value delimiters you
can't use literal double quote but need two entity or two character
references e.g.

 B  &#quot;&#quot;

or

 B  ""

> On 03/10/2024 21:15, Wolfhart Totschnig wolfhart.totschnig@xxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
>> On my end, it looks like the encoding of the smart quotation marks in
>> the code got mixed up during the transmission of the email (namely,
>> they seem to have been replaced by "\xE2"). I therefore attach a
>> picture of what the code should look like in the email.
>>
>>
>> On 10/3/24 15:51, Wolfhart Totschnig wolfhart.totschnig@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> wrote:
>>> Dear list,
>>>
>>> The following replace function replaces a /straight/ single
>>> quotation mark (or apostrophe) with a /smart/ single quotation mark
>>> when it is preceded by either a space or a /smart double/ quotation
>>> mark:
>>>
>>> <xsl:value-of select="replace(.,&#34;([
C"BB])'&#34;,&#34;$1C"BB&#34;)"/>
>>>
>>> I would like to add to this code such that it also replace the
>>> straight single quotation mark when it is preceded by a /straight/
>>> double quotation mark. What do I have to add between the brackets to
>>> achieve this? Putting either ["] or [&#34;] produces an error since
>>> both of these are used in the surrounding code.
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance for your help!
>>> Wolfhart
>>>
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