XSL Escape Character for Apostrophe

[MaKSiNG]

Hi All,

I am attempting to test for a string in the value of one of my XML elements. But this string in the XML is enclosed by apostrophes.

My XSL line looks like:

<xsl:if test="metadata/categories!='Life and Work Events'">
...
</xsl:if>

Now this works for a string which is not enclosed in the apostrophes.

This would be the logical solution but does not obviously work:

<xsl:if test="metadata/categories!=''Life and Work Events''">
...
</xsl:if>

I am thinking I need an escape character before the second apostrophe but might be barking up the wrong tree completely, besides I do not know what the escape character in XSL is. Is there a better solution?


Thx,
MaKS

 

[simonchristieis]

have you tried:

<xsl:if test='metadata/categories!="'Life and Work Events'"'>

?

 

[Karl Blessing]

<Different user than original>
I actually tried what you said simon last night someone , alternating between the " and ' , the XML parser actually came back at me saying it was not well-formed.

Karl Blessing
PHP/MySQL Developer

http://www.karlblessing.com

 

[MaKSiNG]

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion but I get the same XML not well formed error.
I didn't think the quotes could be interchangable quite as freely as that

Any other ideas?

Thx,
MaKS

 

[chiph]

Have you tried the XML predefined entity for the apostrophe?

[ignore]&apos;[/ignore]

Chip H.


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