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RE: String manipulations with quotes

2003-04-10 15:21:42

I don't have control over the authoring.  The quotes are already
embedded in the file.  I can't change all the " to the character
entity because it would change them all.   I could bring the file
into XMetal and convert the quotes with a global find and replace.
However, the file is 8 megabytes long.  I could probably do this
and start the search and replace this evening and maybe it will
be finished in the morning |-).

It just seems like this should be doable in XSLT.

Betty

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On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, David Christiansen wrote:

Here is a table I put together for reserved symbols.  The semicolon
afterwards is required
Char  String
-------       ----------
&     &
<     &lt;
    &gt;
'     &apos;
"     &quot;

-----Original Message-----
From: Betty Harvey [mailto:harvey(_at_)eccnet(_dot_)com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 3:53 PM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] String manipulations with quotes



I am trying to grab text within quotes.  XSLT is not being cooperative.  
Does anyone have any tricks to grab the quote. I would expect it would see
the double quote in the single quote as 'text' and not a delimiter.  
However, it sees it as a closing quote. I tried the 'old vi backslash
trick'but it didn't work.  If it helps, here is my 'snippet'.

<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>

TIA.

Betty

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