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Subject: Re: Escaping Characters in replace()
From: Liam R E Quin <liam@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:11:14 -0400
Re:  Escaping Characters in replace()
On Tue, 2013-10-15 at 15:31 -0400, Nathan Tallman wrote:

> There are separate instructions that insert " before the title/text()
> and ." after title/text(), which results in:
>     "The Atomic Bomb Foreshadowed: 1700 Years Ago.". 1947.

As David says, I wouldn't match on text() as it doesn't do what most
people expect it to do.

Instead of adding a . always and then removing it sometimes, it's
usually better to add the . only when you ned it, e.g. with xsl:if

Liam


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