Ben,
You're escaping the apostrophe correctly, but once the parser is done with
it, it is passing the expression
contains($text, '"'"')
to be interpreted as XPath. That's where you're hitting the error.
The usual workaround (FAQ alert) is to bind the character to a variable and
use a variable reference.
...and in your other thread, why are you using disable-output-escaping?
Cheers,
Wendell
At 12:08 PM 12/2/2003, you wrote:
I'm trying to get a test using contains() to look for an
apostrophe. My XSLT processor (Saxon) keeps telling me that I need
whitespace between attributes.
The fragment I'm working with looks like this:
<xsl:when test="contains($text, '"'"')> some stuff </xsl:when>
I've searched the FAQs, and they report that I'm escaping the
apostrophe correctly.
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