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Subject: Re: How to remove a single quote?
From: "Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 19:57:54 -0000
Re:  How to remove a single quote?
On 31/07/2024 21:51, dvint@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I have content like this:
>
> <topic file="fs_task_with_collapse_in_tabs.dita"
> B B B B title="FORMAT: task inside a tab using collapsed sections"
> B B B B chunk="child"
> B B B B B B B  tabtitle="'Collapse Sections'">
>
> Notice the single quotes in the tabtitle attrbiute. I would like to
> get just the text out of that attribute without the quotes. I've been
> trying to use substring-before/after like this but I get no result
>
> <xsl:attribute name="tabtitle" select="substring-after(@tabtitle,
> '&apos;')"/>
>
> I'm getting an unmatched quote message and if I switch to ''' I get
> the same message. I thought the entity would escape this. If I use
> &quot;, I don't get the error, but my result is empty as that
> character doesn't exist.
>
> What is the proper way to escape and match a ' ?
>
>

I suggested

<xsl:attribute name="tabtitle" select="translate(@tabtitle,
&quot;'&quot;, &quot;&quot;)"/>


and that works for me
<https://martin-honnen.github.io/cheerpj3-saxonhe12-fiddle/?code=%3C%3Fxml+ve
rsion%3D%221.0%22+encoding%3D%22utf-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Cxsl%3Astylesheet+xmlns%3A
xsl%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F1999%2FXSL%2FTransform%22%0A++version%3D%2
23.0%22%0A++xmlns%3Axs%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2001%2FXMLSchema%22%0A+
+exclude-result-prefixes%3D%22%23all%22%0A++expand-text%3D%22yes%22%3E%0A%0A+
+%3Cxsl%3Amode+on-no-match%3D%22shallow-copy%22%2F%3E%0A++%0A++%3Cxsl%3Atempl
ate+match%3D%22%40tabtitle%22%3E%0A++++%3Cxsl%3Aattribute+name%3D%22tabtitle%
22+select%3D%22translate%28.%2C+%26quot%3B%27%26quot%3B%2C+%26quot%3B%26quot%
3B%29%22%2F%3E%0A++%3C%2Fxsl%3Atemplate%3E%0A%0A++%3Cxsl%3Atemplate+match%3D%
22%2F%22+name%3D%22xsl%3Ainitial-template%22%3E%0A++++%3Cxsl%3Acopy%3E%0A++++
++%3Cxsl%3Aapply-templates%2F%3E%0A++++++%3Cxsl%3Acomment%3ERun+with+%7Bsyste
m-property%28%27xsl%3Aproduct-name%27%29%7D+%7Bsystem-property%28%27xsl%3Apro
duct-version%27%29%7D+at+%7Bcurrent-dateTime%28%29%7D%3C%2Fxsl%3Acomment%3E%0
A++++%3C%2Fxsl%3Acopy%3E%0A++%3C%2Fxsl%3Atemplate%3E%0A%0A%3C%2Fxsl%3Astylesh
eet%3E%0A&input=%3Ctopic+file%3D%22fs_task_with_collapse_in_tabs.dita%22%0A++
++title%3D%22FORMAT%3A+task+inside+a+tab+using+collapsed+sections%22%0A++++ch
unk%3D%22child%22%0A++++++++tabtitle%3D%22%27Collapse+Sections%27%22%2F%3E+%0
A&code-type=XSLT&input-type=XML>
(adapted for matching directly on the attribute node)

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