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Re: search and replace along with apply-templates


At 07:55 19-11-2000 -0800, Robert Koberg wrote:
>I have some JavaScript functions that, on click of a glossed word, open a
>new window and writes to it with document.write.  That all works fine except
>there is potential for it to break if the defintion contains a single quote.
>Is there some way to apply-templates and search for the single quote
>character and prepend the js escape character "\" to the single quote?

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

HTH,
Chris
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