<xsl:variable name="quot">"</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="apos">'</xsl:variable>
<xsl:value-of select="translate(., $quot, $apos)"/>
Michael Kay
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Sent: 15 November 2003 12:55
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Subject: [xsl] Escaping quotes in XPath expressions
Hello all,
Can anyone please tell me how I can escape a single-quote in
an XPath expression
such as the one below?
<xsl:value-of select="translate(normalize-space(.), 'x', 'y')"/>
If I use 'x' and 'y' as the search and replace arguments,
everything works well. But I
need to search for single-quotes and replace them with
backslash + single-quote. In
other words, my XPath expression would look something like this:
translate(normalize-space(.), ''', '\'')
Except, of course, that I can't use a single-quote
(character) between two single-quotes
(string delimiters). Backslashes don't escape anything, of
course, and using XML
entities (") inside the search and replace strings won't
work either.
But I just feel there must be a way to do this...
Thanks,
Erik
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