Hi again Betty,
At 06:21 PM 4/10/2003, you wrote:
I don't have control over the authoring. The quotes are already
embedded in the file.
If the XML file has
<text>"Oh foo!" said Tonya, as she looked at her list of warnings.</text>
and you say
<xsl:template match="text">
<xsl:value-of select="translate(.,'"','#')"/>
</xsl:template>
you should get
#Oh foo!# said Tonya, as she looked at her list of warnings.
(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.)
The entity is so the *stylesheet* can be parsed; it still represents the
character literal it represents.
But in your case I'd simply try:
<xsl:variable name="name1">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-after($definition, '"')"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="name2">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($name1, '"')"/>
</xsl:variable>
The parser reports the values of the select attributes as, e.g.
substring-after($definition, '"')
which should be fine.
Cheers,
Wendell
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