On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 18:29:50 -0000
"Craig Sampson craig.sampson@xxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have to escape several characters, one of which is an apostrophe, in strings that I am writing out to a DOJO script. I've tried everything I can think of but can't get the apostrophe replace working.
> 
> Here's of few of the replaces I've tried: (note that all of the double and single quotes are the regular keyboard characters - outlook has altered them below)
> 
> <xsl:variable name="newString" select="replace(oldString, '(['])', 'XXX')"/>
> 
> <xsl:variable name="newString" select="replace(oldString, '&apos;', 'XXX')"/>
These two will be the same once XSLT gets to see...
> 
> <xsl:variable name="newString" select="replace(oldString, '''', 'XXX')"/>

How about
 <xsl:variable name="newString" select='replace(oldString, "&apos;", "XXX")'/>

Liam


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