Re: [xsl] Creating strings with apos and replacing

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

On 13/05/2025 20:40, dvint@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> My main question is the correct way to use replace() to remove special
> characters and spaces that appear in document titles. Some I just want
> to remove and others I want to translate to something else.
>
> I have this much working
>
> <xsl:function name="ping:gen_id">
> B B B B <xsl:param name="INSTRING"/>
> B B B B <xsl:value-of select="translate(replace(lower-case($INSTRING), '
> ', '_'),
> B B B B ':()','')"/>
> </xsl:function>
>
> To the replace I wanted to add the ' character to replace with
> nothing. I tried adding \' \\' &apo; &apos;&apos; to no avail.


In XPath 2.0 and later you can use two single quotes inside a single
quoted string e.g. ':()''' or ''''.

> This iss a sample of a string I'm trying to modify:
>
> "Step 9: Create the application's resource access grant"
>
> So I asked coPilot what should be done and it came up with:
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
> B B B  <xsl:variable name="inputString" select="'This is a string with a
> single quote: 'example''" />
> B B B  <xsl:variable name="outputString" select="translate($inputString,
> &apos;&apos;, '')" />
> B B B  <xsl:value-of select="$outputString" />
> </xsl:template>
>
> This throws a different error around creating the inputString.
>
> Unexpected token name "example" beyond end of expression
>
> Which leads to the other part of my question about how you would
> create a string variable with an &apos; in the content. I imagine it
> will be the same answer, but wanted to post this for completion of the
> question.
B  'This is a string with a single quote: ''example'''