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RE: Implementing " and ' in literals
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- Subject: RE: Implementing " and ' in literals
- From: Matt Sergeant <matt at sergeant dot org>
- Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 12:20:07 +0100 (BST)
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Kay Michael wrote:
> > 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;""/>
> >
> > Which gives you a literal of:
> >
> > I'm feeling "sad"
> >
>
> I'm feeling sad too. If you're going to create extensions to XPath syntax,
> at least define syntax that will be rejected by other people's XPath
> processors, rather than syntax that is correct according to the standard but
> means something different. E.g. define a new kind of literal enclosed
> between grave accents within which you can introduce any kind of escape
> conventions you like. (And even then, you need to give up all hope of
> claiming that your processor conforms with the standard).
Actually using C style backslash escaping would be rejected by other
parsers, I believe. So that's probably a better long term solution (and
it's prettier too!).
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