RE: [xsl] String manipulations with quotes

Subject: RE: [xsl] String manipulations with quotes
From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 21:35:15 +0100
> But (I take it, since XSLT 2.0 will still be XML -- I hope! 
> ;-) one will 
> still have the extra wrinkle of worrying about the delimiter used to 
> identify the XPath as an attribute value.

Yes. The rule becomes: Use one kind of quotes for XML attributes, the
other kind for XPath string literals. Use XML escaping for the XML
attribute quotes. Use XPath escaping (i.e. doubling) for the XPath
quotes.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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