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RE: test if string contains an apostraphe
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] test if string contains an apostraphe
- From: "LAJ" <shaard at btinternet dot com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 22:43:34 +0100
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I came across this one myself a few weeks ago - stumped me for a while - and
its so remarkably simple I slapped myself when I saw it.
<xsl:if test='contains($string, "'")'>
Lee
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
[mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of Heather
Lindsay
Sent: 03 July 2001 20:27
To: 'xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com'
Subject: [xsl] test if string contains an apostraphe
hi,
I am trying to test if a string contains an apostraphe but am unable
to get the contains() function to work with it. Ordinarily to test if a
string contains some text you would have:
<xsl:if test="contains($string,'text')"> where the text you are
testing for is in single quotes.
Along those lines, I tried:
<xsl:if test="contains($string, ''')"> which gave me the following
error:
org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLProcessorException: pattern =
'not(contains($string, ''')'
misquoted literal... expected single quote!
I tried it with double quotes around the substring <xsl:if
test="contains($string, "'")"> but this is not well-formed XML.
I also tried it like this: <xsl:if test="contains($string, ')">
and <xsl:if test="contains($string, ''')"> but got exceptions like the
one above.
Has anyone done anything like this?
Thanks in advance,
Heather
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