RE: A way to use Single quote or double quote in XML a

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Subject: RE: A way to use Single quote or double quote in XML and/or output it into HTML & FO without resorting to CDATA in the XML?
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 11:20:16 -0400

Sergiu,

At 10:54 AM 10/1/2003, you wrote:

Does anybody nows why &quote; is so hard to handle?

Because you have to get it past *both* the XML parser (which the escaping of " into &quote; will do) and the XPath expression parser.

E.g. <xsl:value-of select='translate(.,"&quote;","-")'/>

the XML parser resolves this to

translate(.,""","-")

which doesn't make much sense in XPath.

The usual workaround is to bind the problem character (or string) to a variable, so you can evaluate the expression

translate(.,$quote,"-")

which isn't a problem.

Make more sense now? This double layer of indirection for "hot" characters is part of the price we pay for the expression language wrapped in XML syntax. If XPath had a completely different set of significant characters (delimiters) from XML -- things would be confusing in a different way.

Cheers,
Wendell

Sergiu
> Abhishek Sanwal
> HP - Houston Campus
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A way to use Single quote or double quote in XML and/or output it into HTML & FO without resorting to CDATA in the XML?
- SANWAL, ABHISHEK (HP-Houston) - Wed, 1 Oct 2003 10:26:22 -0400 (EDT)
  - David Carlisle - Wed, 1 Oct 2003 11:02:35 -0400 (EDT)
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  - Sergiu Ignat - Wed, 1 Oct 2003 10:55:04 -0400 (EDT)
    - David Carlisle - Wed, 1 Oct 2003 11:24:35 -0400 (EDT)
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