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Subject: Re: String literals with both single and double quotes
From: Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:30:15 +0100

Andrew Welch wrote:

So does that mean in XPath 2.0 they can?

Yes. You can escape a single quote (apostrophe) or a double quote by doubling it, depending on the containing quotes. I.e., if your string is contained in single quotes, you can double a single quote to escape it. In a value-of select expression, it looks like this. where the single quote is escaped:

<xsl:value-of select=" ' dquote: " and squote: '' ' " />

This selects the following:

dquote: " and squote: '

In XSLT literal attributes this is -- of course -- not possible due to restrictions of XML:

<xsl:output-character character="1" string=" "" "/>

but here escaping isn't needed at all (but this is not XPath, but XSLT):

<xsl:output-character character="1" string=" " "/>

Cheers,
-- Abel
  http://www.nuntia.nl

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