RE: [xsl] Replace characters in a node and all of its descendents

["Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I must use Microsoft .NET parser and processor.

I need to fix a coathook but I must use a hammer...

Why?

Michael Kay
 
> Postprocessing with multiple transformation, I think, is the 
> only viable solution. I hope there will be a serialization 
> capability defined for XSLT 2.0 .
> 
> Sergiu
> 
> > 
> > Try saxon:serialize(), followed by one of the many ways of
> > doing string
> > replacement to double the quotes. Or you could write a 
> > similar extension
> > function for a different processor. People have in the past 
> > posted code
> > that does serialization in XSLT itself, and then uses
> > disable-output-escaping to prevent the markup being escaped, but I
> > wouldn't recommend it myself.
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> > > Sergiu Ignat
> > > Sent: 30 September 2003 16:30
> > > To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [xsl] Replace characters in a node and all of its 
> > descendents
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I need to generate an SQL "INSERT INTO" statement from an xml
> > > document. One of the columns must hold the string 
> > > representation of an XML node with all of its descendents. To 
> > > insert this node as a string I must replace each single quote 
> > > with other two single quotes for conformance with SQL syntax.
> > > 
> > > I can not send a deep copy of the node taken with
> > > <xsl:copy-of> to the $text parameter of the "replace-string" 
> > > template posted by Evan Lenz at 
> > > http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/replace.htm> l
> > > How can I get 
> > > a deep copy of a node as a string to process 
> > > it? Multiple transformations are not recomended. Thanks. 
> > Sergiu Ignat
> > > 
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