Re: [xsl] Calling function with text parameter

[Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx>]

Peter Flynn wrote:
> David Carlisle wrote:
> >   >>Do browsers really treat ' and ' differently? I'm appalled.
> > 
> >   They shouldn't. They reference the same codepoint.
> > 
> > Not in (X)HTML they don't.
> 
> ' is declared in the xhtml-special character entities as '
> which in Unicode and ASCII is the unidirectional apostrophe ("'").
> 
> I'm puzzled. What's the difference?

Well, there's no difference; David was mistaken; XHTML, as an XML
application, implicitly defines apos and also explicitly defines it in
its DTD, as you noted.

HTML, however, does not define apos at all. To escape ' in an attribute
value in HTML, one must write '. In XSLT-land, this is only of concern
to the HTML serializer, if it happens to use ' to delimit attribute values.

   - Mike
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