RE: both single and double quotes in an XPATH translat

The simple way to handle strings containing " and ' is to use an RTF
variable:

<xsl:variable
name="from">'!@#$%^*(),:;.?/\[]{}|=+-_*"&amp;&gt;&lt;</xsl:variable>

... translate(name, $from, '_______________________')...

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arian Hojat [mailto:arianhojat2000@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 28 June 2005 20:07
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  both single and double quotes in an XPATH translate()
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I am trying to do a big translate on a string with
> special characters like so...
> 
> <xsl:value-of select="string( translate(./name, &apos;
> '!@#$%^*(),:;.?/\[]{}|=+-_*&quot;&amp;&gt;&lt;&apos; ,
> '________________________________') )" />
> 
> But I want to translate both single and double qoutes
> in there,
> Since the string is delimiting by &apos, I thought I
> could use single qoute' in there, but I get an
> error...
> 
> (Xalan, hav not tested in Saxon yet cause Xalan is the
> trouble maker usually for my code)
> javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException:
> javax.xml.transform.TransformerException:
> javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: Prefix must
> resolve to a namespace:
> 
> 
> I found this useful archived page for what I wanted to
> do.
> http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200107/msg00181.html
> but David leaves me hanging with the cliffhanger:
> "It gets more interesting when you need both " and '
> in the [Xpath] string." :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Arian
> 
> 
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