Re: [xep-support] Replace straight apostrophe with curly apostrophe

At 2010-01-17 11:24 -0500, Harvey, Paul wrote:
>Sounds like the simplest thing in the world, but I can figure this out.
>Whatever I try I get errors along the lines of
>
>Unmatched quote in expression '
>
>The problem is - how to select a single apostrophe in XSLT?

If you are working on a simple string, say $input, and you need to do
the replacement of a straight apostrophe to a curly apostrophe, the
following should work:

   <xsl:value-of select='translate($input,"&apos;","&#x201a;")'/>

Following Kevin's approach to translating every straight apostrophe
found in text to a curly apostrophe, that would be:

   <xsl:tempate match="text()">
    <xsl:value-of select='translate(.,"&apos;","&#x201a;")'/>
   </xsl:template>

The trick is just to keep track of the string delimiters and the
attribute delimiters. You can use the attribute delimiter inside the
attribute value if you escape it, and it has to be in whatever string
delimiter that isn't the attribute delimiter.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . Ken

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