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Subject: Re: Implementing " and ' in literals From: Matt Sergeant <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 11:40:23 +0100 (BST) |
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 " and ' 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=""I'm feeling > &quot;sad&quot;""/> > > That's a big no-can-do. That should produce the literal: > > I'm feeling "sad" > > which, if serialized, would show up as > > I'm feeling &quot;sad&quot; You seem to be missing the point completely. See my reply to David Carlisle. -- <Matt/> Fastnet Software Ltd. High Performance Web Specialists Providing mod_perl, XML, Sybase and Oracle solutions Email for training and consultancy availability. http://sergeant.org http://xml.sergeant.org XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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