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Subject: RE: [xsl] A way to use Single quote or double quote in XML and/or output it into HTML & FO without resorting to CDATA in the XML?
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 11:20:16 -0400
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Sergiu,
At 10:54 AM 10/1/2003, you wrote:
Does anybody nows why "e; is so hard to handle?
Because you have to get it past *both* the XML parser (which the escaping
of " into "e; will do) and the XPath expression parser.
E.g. <xsl:value-of select='translate(.,""e;","-")'/>
the XML parser resolves this to
translate(.,""","-")
which doesn't make much sense in XPath.
The usual workaround is to bind the problem character (or string) to a
variable, so you can evaluate the expression
translate(.,$quote,"-")
which isn't a problem.
Make more sense now? This double layer of indirection for "hot" characters
is part of the price we pay for the expression language wrapped in XML
syntax. If XPath had a completely different set of significant characters
(delimiters) from XML -- things would be confusing in a different way.
Cheers,
Wendell
Sergiu
> Abhishek Sanwal
> HP - Houston Campus
> abhishek.sanwal@xxxxxx
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