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Re: [xsl] How to create a literal string attribute value that contains an apostrophe?

2013-12-09 09:11:33
In this case I do something like :
<xsl:value-of>he's good</xsl:value-of>
that can be do with the <xsl:variable ou <xsl:attribute, if you want you can push it in a <xsl:text>

Marc

Le 09/12/2013 15:57, Costello, Roger L. a écrit :
Hi Folks,

I want to output a string.

This

        <xsl:value-of select="'he is good'" />

outputs:

        he is good

Now, suppose that I want to output:

        he's good

This

        <xsl:value-of select="'he&apos;s good'" />

produces an error. Apparently the entity is resolved to yield

        <xsl:value-of select="'he's good'" />

and that is obviously an error.

So what's the solution?

Answer: escape the ampersand in the apostrophe entity reference:

        <xsl:value-of select="'he&amp;apos;s good'" />

Now that doesn't seem reasonable. It means that there is double entity 
resolution occurring: the first to convert

        &amp;apos;

to
        
        &apos;

and the second to convert

        &apos;

to

        '

Where is this double entity resolution occurring? The XML parser does the first 
entity resolution. What is doing the second entity resolution?

/Roger  



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