Re: [xsl] Creating strings with apos and replacing

["David Carlisle d.p.carlisle@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

one day I'll learn to type... that was supposed to say


so you can use "foo 'example' bar"     or 'foo ''example'' bar'  to get the
string foo 'example' bar


On Tue, 13 May 2025 at 20:15, David Carlisle d.p.carlisle@xxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> On Tue, 13 May 2025 at 20:04, dvint dvint@xxxxxxxxx <
> xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Trplle apos does the trick for defining the variable, but doesn't work
>> for the replace().
>>
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> to get a ' into an xpath string you either need a single ' in as "-quoted
> string or a double '' in a '=quoted string.
> Using & apos; doesn't help as xml entities are expanded before the xpath
> is parsed.
>
> so you can use "foo 'example' bar"     or 'foo ''example' bar'  to get the
> string foo 'example' bar
>
> David
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>
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>>
>> Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
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>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: "Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx" <
>> xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: 5/13/25 11:51 AM (GMT-08:00)
>> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [xsl] Creating strings with apos and replacing
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>> 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">
>> >     <xsl:param name="INSTRING"/>
>> >     <xsl:value-of select="translate(replace(lower-case($INSTRING), '
>> > ', '_'),
>> >     ':()','')"/>
>> > </xsl:function>
>> >
>> > To the replace I wanted to add the ' character to replace with
>> > nothing. I tried adding \' \\' &apo; &apos;&apos; to no avail.
>>
>>
>> In XPath 2.0 and later you can use two single quotes inside a single
>> quoted string e.g. ':()''' or ''''.
>>
>> >
>> > This iss a sample of a string I'm trying to modify:
>> >
>> > "Step 9: Create the application's resource access grant"
>> >
>> > So I asked coPilot what should be done and it came up with:
>> >
>> > <xsl:template match="/">
>> >     <xsl:variable name="inputString" select="'This is a string with a
>> > single quote: 'example''" />
>> >     <xsl:variable name="outputString" select="translate($inputString,
>> > &apos;&apos;, '')" />
>> >     <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.
>> >
>> >
>>   'This is a string with a single quote: ''example'''
>>
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