On Tue, 2020-11-17 at 13:58 +0000, Michael Kay mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com
wrote:
A suggestion that I've thought about from time to time:
If an attribute in XSLT expects an expression or an AVT, then a
leading undoubled "}" in the attribute value indicates that is to be
treated as a plain string.
Sometimes i end up with braces in comments, or using entities, in order
to keep them balanced, as it's an incredibly useful too to check
balancing when there are cryptic errors.
More importantly, it's weird magic that will catch someone out when
they want to replace a close curly brace with a close paren.
I like, expand-attributes="no" to go with expand-text="no" though.
If we followed Simon's old suggestion, we'd use single quotes round
attributes to be treated literally and double for AVTs, but none of the
main XML parsers report that information.
Liam
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