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[xsl] How do you prevent ' from being escaped within an attribute value

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How do you prevent ' from being escaped in an attribute value?

For example:

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XML input:
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<values person="John Doe"/>

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XSL input:
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<xsl:stylesheet
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  version="1.0">

  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

  <xsl:template match="values">
    <xsl:variable name="person" select="string(./@person)"/>

    <xsl:variable name="Tree">
      <QUERY where="NAME LIKE &apos;{$person}&apos;"></QUERY>
    </xsl:variable>

    <xsl:copy-of select="$Tree"/>

  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

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Output:
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<QUERY where="NAME LIKE 'John Doe'"/>


I have tried many different variations of the above example and I can't seem
to achieve the desired output of:
<QUERY where="NAME LIKE &apos;John Doe&apos;"/>

If I use another escaped character such as &amp; the output will be:
<QUERY where="NAME LIKE &amp;John Doe&amp;"/>
>From the XML spec I gather this has something to do with the fact that it is
an attribute.

If a quick fix isn't available, is there a way to access XSL variables from
within a CDATA section.

Any help you could provide would be much appreciated!

Thanks,
Jon





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