Re: substrings with entities or not.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Beddow" <mbnospam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 11:11 AM
Subject: Re:  substrings with entities or not.


> By the time the XSLT processor sees your data, the parser has resolved
> the entities.
> 
> Michael
> ------------------------------------------
> Michael Beddow
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Van Den Hoven" <Adam.Hoven@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "XSL Mailing List (E-mail)" <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 6:15 PM
> Subject:  substrings with entities or not.
> 
> 
> > So given the following XML
> > <someXML>
> > <something>Adam said, &quot;This is a lot of work!"</something>
> > <something>Adam also said, "This is a lot of work!&quot;</something>
> > </someXML>
> >
> > I want to get the strings <<Adam said, >> and <<Adam also said, >>
> >
> > can I use
> >
> > <xsl:value-of select="substring-before(something, '&quot;')" />
> >
> > and exect everything to work out OK? My problem is that I can't
> really
> > guarantee that I'm going to have either the character or the entity
> in my
> > source.
> >
> >
> > > Adam van den Hoven
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