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Re: Implementing " and ' in literals

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On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Christopher R. Maden wrote:

> On 20-04-2000, 01:49:01, Matt Sergeant <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote 
> regarding Implementing " and ' in literals:
> > In XML::XPath (perl's XPath processing module) I implemented 
> translation
> > of &quot; and &apos; in literals to " and ' respectively. I know this
> > isn't in the spec, so I thought I'd better hash it out a bit first. 
> I've
> > heard people call for this feature before, so I figured it might be
> > useful. An alternate way of doing this is to use the C escape 
> mechanisms,
> > although then you'd have to build support way back into the tokenizer,
> > which is far harder.
> 
> > So what do people think of this? It allows you to do the following in 
> your
> > XSLT:
> 
> > <xsl:value-of select="&quot;I'm feeling 
> &amp;quot;sad&amp;quot;&quot;"/>
> 
> That's a big no-can-do.  That should produce the literal:
> 
>    I'm feeling &quot;sad&quot;
> 
> which, if serialized, would show up as
> 
>    I'm feeling &#38;quot;sad&#38;quot;

You seem to be missing the point completely. See my reply to David
Carlisle.

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