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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: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 11:40:23 +0100 (BST)
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On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Christopher R. Maden wrote:
> On 20-04-2000, 01:49:01, Matt Sergeant <matt@sergeant.org> wrote
> regarding Implementing " and ' in literals:
> > In XML::XPath (perl's XPath processing module) I implemented
> translation
> > of " and ' in literals to " and ' respectively. I know this
> > isn't in the spec, so I thought I'd better hash it out a bit first.
> I've
> > heard people call for this feature before, so I figured it might be
> > useful. An alternate way of doing this is to use the C escape
> mechanisms,
> > although then you'd have to build support way back into the tokenizer,
> > which is far harder.
>
> > 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;""/>
>
> That's a big no-can-do. That should produce the literal:
>
> I'm feeling "sad"
>
> which, if serialized, would show up as
>
> I'm feeling &quot;sad&quot;
You seem to be missing the point completely. See my reply to David
Carlisle.
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