AW: [xsl] Translating "("

["Huditsch Roman" <Roman.Huditsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you very very much, David.
That was exactly what I needed.

wbr,
Roman

> -----Urspr|ngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx]
> Gesendet: Montag, 15. November 2004 13:36
> An: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Betreff: Re: [xsl] Translating "("
>
>
>   I need translate special characters like "(", ")" etc in <ln:term>.
>
>   <xsl:variable name="val" select="translate(normalize-space(ln:term),
>   '&#39;&#160;/&#40;&#41;,&#34;""', '_')" />
>
>   Unfortunately Saxon throws an exception at this line, because of
>   resolving the character entities...
>
>
> There's nothing special about ( in strings, you could just use ( to
> denote those. and &#39; are not entity references but character
> references (which are expanded at a different time)
>
> You didn't show the error message you got, although it's unlikely to
> have been from saxon, your quoted line is not well formed XML (It has a
> two literal " characters inside a " delimited attribute value) so should
> have been rejected by the XML parser before XSLT processing starts.
>
>  <xsl:variable name="val" select="translate(normalize-space(ln:term),
>                                  ^
>   '&#39;&#160;/&#40;&#41;,&#34;""', '_')" />
>                                ^^       ^
>
> Getting ' and " into an Xpath string is a FAQ )and the faq for this list
> will have an entry for it but you can not have a string literal that
> contains both ' and " You appear to want to have the Xpath string
>
>  '<nbsp>/(),"
>
> You can have ' in a "-delimited string and " in a 'delimited string but
> you can't have both in the same literal so you need to concat them
> together eg
>
> concat("'&#160;/()",'"')
>
> Your translate function just had a string of length 1 so that's goint to
> replace the first character  ' by _ and discard the rest, is that what
> you want? assuming so:
>
> You need
>
> translate(normalize-space(ln:term),
>    concat("'&#160;/()",'"')
>    '_')
>
> now to get that expression into a select attrbute. As far as XML is
> concerned it's all just an opaque string, that has three " and five '
> so if you are using " to delimit the attrinute you need to &quot; the
> occurrences of " in the attribute value
>
> select="translate(normalize-space(ln:term),
>    concat(&quot;'&#160;/()&quot;,'&quot;')
>    '_')"
>
> David
>
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