Re: [xsl] String literals with both single and double quotes

Elliotte Harold wrote:
> I need to check my spec reading. I currently believe this statement to 
> be true:
> In XPath 1.0 a single string literal cannot contain both single and 
> double quotes.
> Is that accurate? If so I can delete an ugly branch in Jaxen.
In XPath 1 and XSLT 1 you can do this to output a single apostrophe or 
quote respectively:
<xsl:value-of select=' " &apos; " ' />
<xsl:value-of select=" ' &quot; ' " />

To create a string with both literal apostrophe and quote, you can do this:

<xsl:value-of select="concat( ' &quot; ',  &quot; &apos; &quot; ) "/>

In XPath 2, this becomes much easier, because you can escape by using a 
double quote or apostrophe, like this:
<xsl:value-of select=" ' &quot; '' ' " />

Cheers,
-- Abel Braaksma
  http://www.nuntia.nl

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