Re: Xalan-J 2 not respecting " and ' in Strings

[David_N_Bertoni]

Entities are expanded  by the XML parser before Xalan ever sees them.  If
you're using Xalan's XPath by passing strings into the XPath API, then that
certainly won't work, since there will be no parser involved.  I'm also
don't understand what expression you're trying to evaluate.  Why are you
using two sets of quotes?

title[text()='Gone Fishing']

or:

title[text()="Gone Fishing"]

makes sense, but this:

title[text()=""Gone Fishing""]

does not.

Dave



                                                                                       
                         
                    Tom Bradford                                                       
                         
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It looks like Xalan's XPath implementation isn't respecting &quot; and
&apos; in quoted strings for comparisons.  One of our users noted that
even though queries like title[text()="&quot;Gone Fishing&quot;"] are
resolved properly by our indexing system, when they reach Xalan for the
final processing pass, the expression returns no nodes.

Any ideas?

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