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Re: [xsl] double quotes in attributes

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On Tuesday 27 August 2002 13:48, yan bai wrote:
> Hi, Gurus,
> I have some xml files which is produced by server.
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>          text="Alarm Status 00000100 stream-id="0
>           LowAlarm"" />
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> How should I handle the double quote problem here in
> xsl?

The only way to process a file like this is to fix the problem, by making the 
*server* convert the double quotes into " sequences.  This is not valid 
XML, and XSLT can't process source files that aren't valid XML, so I'm afraid 
you are SOL unless the *server* is fixed.

You can maybe write a program in another language (Perl?) to fix the problem.  
But I will bet that double quotes aren't the only problem: it looks like the 
server doesn't do any escaping on its output, which means that '<' characters 
and any other character that isn't legal in your character set will need to 
be fixed as well.

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Peter Davis

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