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Re: [xsl] Putting apostrophes around a string

2009-03-27 04:56:03
At 2009-03-27 09:50 +0100, Anna Södling wrote:
I'm putting together a string using this code snippet:
<xsl:value-of select="concat('Entering state: ',$sname)" />

Now, I would like to change the string by putting apostrophes around
it so that the output is
'Entering state: name'

Is it possible to do this and, in that case, how? I've tried with
apostrophe and &apos; but didn't manage to get it to work in any of
the different ways I used it.
I'm using XSLT 1.0.

You have to distinguish between attribute specification delimiters and string delimiters.

The following should work:

  <xsl:value-of select='concat("&apos;Entering state: ",$sname,"&apos;")' />

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . Ken

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