RE: [xsl] hoe to use "(" within a variable

["Andrew Welch" <awelch at piper-group dot com>]

Jeni,

Can you highlight the differences of using the select attribute (over
rtf content) when using variables.

Using this case as an example,

<xsl:variable name"foo" select="sprintf(log_str, '\n%s: %d: %s:%s')"/>

against:

<xsl:variable name="foo">sprintf(log_str, '\n%s: %d:
%s:%s')</xsl:variable>

As you have said one would require escaping of quotes, and the other is
technically a result-tree-fragment, but getting the value-of produces
the same results.

What is best practice here?

cheers
andrew



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Welch 
> Sent: 12 August 2002 11:55
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: RE: [xsl] hoe to use "(" within a variable
> 
> 
> 
> You are trying to use it as an Xpath, instead just use it as text
> content for the var:
> 
> <xsl:variable name="entering_log">sprintf(log_str, "\n%s: %d: %s:%s",
> __FILE__,__LINE__,fn, "Entering"); log_func();</xsl:variable>
> 
> Then select it using xsl:value-of:
> 
> <xsl:value-of select="$entering_log"/>
> 
> cheers
> andrew
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vinoth Palaniappan [mailto:vinoth@mihy.mot.com]
> > Sent: 12 August 2002 11:17
> > To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> > Subject: [xsl] hoe to use "(" within a variable
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 	I need to define a variable in XSL sheet as follows:
> > <xsl:variable name="entering_log" select='sprintf(log_str, 
> > "\n%s: %d: %s:
> > %s", __FILE__,__LINE__,fn, "Entering"); log_func();' 
> ></xsl:variable>
> > 	I'm getting an error: "Could not find function: 
> > sprintf()" from the
> > XSL engine. How to escape the characters ( ) " ' so that 
> they will be
> > interpreted as normal text by the XSL engine.
> > 
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