Thanks Ken, I was trying to solve the problem at the wrong place. What I need
to do is escape the quote inside some javascript. Using this stylesheet looks
to me like it should work:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" />
<xsl:template match="/root/test">
<!-- results in 'Spring Wound \Bypass\ Timers' -->
<xsl:value-of select="translate(@attr, '"', '\"')" />
<!-- yet this results in '\"' which is what I want -->
<xsl:value-of select="'\"'" />
<!-- results in 'Spring Wound \Bypass\ Timers' -->
<xsl:value-of select="translate(@attr, '"', concat('\',
'"'))" />
<!-- yet this results in '\"' which is what I want -->
<xsl:value-of select="concat('\', '"')" />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
But it doesn't output the quote:
Spring Wound \Bypass\ Timers
Instead of:
Spring Wound \"Bypass\" Timers
-----Original Message-----
From: G. Ken Holman [mailto:gkholman(_at_)CraneSoftwrights(_dot_)com]
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 1:29 PM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] entity output
At 2003-06-12 13:16 -0500, Craig Kattner wrote:
I have the following XML:
...
<test attr="Spring Wound "Bypass" Timers" />
...
The output of this is:
Spring Wound "Bypass" Timers
But what I need is:
Spring Wound "Bypass" Timers
...
Is there anyway I can get the output here to have the entity encoded quote
(") instead of just a plain quote (")?
No ... XSLT 1.0 does not provide any stylesheet control over the lexical
choice of the representation of characters in the output. The processor is
allowed to choose any well-formed way to serialize the information in the
result tree.
................... Ken
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