Subject: RE: Can't have both " and ' in an XPath literal
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 08:50:04 +0100
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> To all of my knowledge, the XPath 1.0 syntax has no escaping
> mechanism for literal delimiters at all.
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> Do I miss something? If no, is this problem still valid for XPath 2.0?
XPath 2.0 allows the delimiter of a string literal to be doubled within the
literal:
xsl:if test='($x = "He said, ""I don't""")'>...
In XSLT 1.0 my usual approach is to use variables
<xsl:variable name="quot">"</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="apos">'</xsl:variable>
<xsl:if test="$x = concat('He said, ', $quot, 'I don', $apos, 't',
$quot)">...
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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