Re: [xsl] Escaping an apostrophe for JavaScript

[Robert Koberg <rob at koberg dot com>]

here you go:


<xsl:template name="fixquotes">
   <xsl:param name="string"/>
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="contains($string, &quot;'&quot;)">
        <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($string, &quot;'&quot;)"/>
        <xsl:text>\'</xsl:text>
        <xsl:call-template name="fixquotes">
          <xsl:with-param name="string"
            select="substring-after($string, &quot;'&quot;)"/>
        </xsl:call-template>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:value-of select="$string"/>
      </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank T. O'Connor" <foconnor@kabel-us.com>
To: <xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 6:44 PM
Subject: [xsl] Escaping an apostrophe for JavaScript


> Using MSXML3.
> 
> Trying to write the following string:
>   <img 
>     src="blah.gif" 
>     onMouseOver="window.status='Frank O\'Connor'; return true;"
>   />
> 
> The problem is my source XML doesn't have the apostrophe escaped for
> javascrpt. The source node simply has "O'Connor" in it.
> I can't seem to figure out any way of using translate or substring to
> convert the apostrophe to a backslash-apostrophe. There doesn't seem to
> be any way to locate the location of a substring within a string. Unless
> I loop it one character at a time.
> 
> I was thinking perhaps I could make up a entity that is
> backslash-apostrophe, and then tell translate to replace apostrophe with
> this entity.
> 
> But I'm not sure where to put this DTD information in my XSL file. 
> 
> I tried this:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
> <!ENTITY test "\&apos;">
> ]>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> version="1.0">
> ...
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> but I get this error:
> The element 'xsl:stylesheet' is used but not declared in the DTD/Schema
> 
> 
> any suggestion?
> 
> Thanks,
> -frank
> 
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