hello
I am trying to have in the out put a String with ' in the begining and in its end (for example, I want it to print 'hello' in that way in the out put.)

I thought of using the ' phrase but I dont think it is working.
<xsl:value-of select= "concat('try', &apos;hello&apos;)"/>
(I thought to use it just like I use " when I want to write ")

I will appreciate if you have an idea how to write it or what is wrong.

thank you
kfir

You need to appreciate that &apos; is translated to ' by the XML parser, so this produces the text

concat('try', 'hello')

which is what the XPath processor then evaluates.

I find the simplest way to handle quotes and apostrophes is to declare

<xsl:variable name="apos">'</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="quot">"</xsl:variable>

and then use things like concat($quot, 'hello', $quot)




Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

thank you very much

kfir