Re: String manipulations with quotes

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Subject: Re: String manipulations with quotes
From: Jeni Tennison <jeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 09:34:15 +0100

Wendell wrote:
> (But note you can't say translate(.,'&quot;','&apos;'), since once
> it is parsed the stylesheet processor still chokes on
> translate(.,'&quot;',''') -- in a case like that you have to resort
> to binding the problem character to a variable.)

Note that in XPath 2.0 you can double up a " in a "-delimited string
literal or a ' in a '-delimited string literal in order to escape it.
So you can do:

  translate(., '&quot;', '''')

to change " into '.

Cheers,

Jeni

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RE: String manipulations with quotes
- David Christiansen - Thu, 10 Apr 2003 17:54:53 -0400 (EDT)
  - Betty Harvey - Thu, 10 Apr 2003 18:01:38 -0400 (EDT)
    - Wendell Piez - Thu, 10 Apr 2003 18:52:11 -0400 (EDT)
      - Jeni Tennison - Fri, 11 Apr 2003 04:30:12 -0400 (EDT) <=
      - Wendell Piez - Fri, 11 Apr 2003 14:50:16 -0400 (EDT)
      - Michael Kay - Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:31:21 -0400 (EDT)
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    - David Carlisle - Thu, 10 Apr 2003 19:42:04 -0400 (EDT)

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