Subject: Re: [xsl] escaping ampersands in replace function From: Mario Madunic <hajduk@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 09:43:04 -0700 |
Sorry to say replace($l_TempString,'&','and') get an error message stating the & must be followed by an entity reference replace($l_TempString,'&','and') and replace($l_TempString,'&amp;','and') the amp is not replaced. I'm using the latest version of Saxon8 (from sourceforge). An example of a string I'm trying to replace: A & B to A and B. So the process I'm using is get only the string values of a node's descendants into a var (l_TempString), then create a new variable with a replace statement. Maybe my method is incorrect. Marijan (Mario) Madunic Quoting David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > > I'm using XSLT2's replace function against a string but am having problems > > escaping the ampersand. > > ampersaand isn't a special character to xpath regular expressions, so > you don't need to escape it so you want: > > replace($l_TempString,'&','and') > > then you need to put that XPath expression in a slect attribute, > whenever you put a string containg & in an XMl file you need to write it > as & so the xslt looks like > > select="replace($l_TempString,'&','and')" > > This is assuming that your input string contains a " & " > if it contains " & " > then you want the XPath > > > replace($l_TempString,'&','and') > > > which would be written in an XML file such as an XSLT stylesheet as > > select="replace($l_TempString,'&amp;','and')" > > as the & has to be written as & > > David > > ________________________________________________________________________ > The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England > and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: > Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. > > This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is > powered by MessageLabs. > ________________________________________________________________________
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