Viktor Štujber wrote:
> This is interesting... could you point me to the part of the spec that
> describes the rules for constructing literals this way?
It’s got nothing (well, little) to do with XSLT; it is a result of the
XML syntax rules.
An attribute value must be bounded by " or '. It may not contain its
bounding characters. However, entity references may be used with an
attribute value:
<anxmlelement anattribute="a value with "quotation marks""
anotherattribute='a value with 'apostrophes''/>
XSLT 1.0 requires string literals to be delimited with " or ', and does
not provide an escape mechanism for those marks to be included.
'a string with "quotation marks"'
"a string with 'apostrophes'"
When a string literal needs to go in an attribute value, the rules must
be combined:
<xsl:value-of
select="'a string with "quotation marks"'"/>
<xsl:value-of
select='"a string with 'apostrophes'"'/>
If you need both quotation marks and apostrophes in a string, you must
use concat().
concat('a string with "quotes" ', "and 'apostrophes'")
<xsl:value-of
select="concat('a string with "quotes" ',
"and 'apostrophes'")"/>
HTH,
Chris
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