Re: String manipulations with quotes

Thanks! That worked.  Sorry David - I misunderstood what you were
telling me to do.  

Thanks everyone for your help.  As always you helped!

Betty

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, J.Pietschmann wrote:

> Betty Harvey wrote:
> > I am trying to grab text within quotes.  XSLT is not being cooperative.  
> > Does anyone have any tricks to grab the quote. I would expect it would see
> > the double quote in the single quote as 'text' and not a delimiter.  
> > However, it sees it as a closing quote. I tried the 'old vi backslash
> > trick'but it didn't work.
> 
> There is no backslash escaping in XML/XPath.
> Try
>   <xsl:variable name="name1">
>        <xsl:value-of select="substring-after ($definition, '&quot;')"/>
>   </xsl:variable>
> 
> BTW you could write this as
>   <xsl:variable name="name1" select="substring-after($definition, '&quot;')"/>
> 
> 
> 
> J.Pietschmann
> 
> 
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