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Re: String manipulations with quotes

2003-04-11 01:34:15
Wendell wrote:
(But note you can't say translate(.,'"','''), since once
it is parsed the stylesheet processor still chokes on
translate(.,'"',''') -- in a case like that you have to resort
to binding the problem character to a variable.)

Note that in XPath 2.0 you can double up a " in a "-delimited string
literal or a ' in a '-delimited string literal in order to escape it.
So you can do:

  translate(., '"', '''')

to change " into '.

Cheers,

Jeni

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