<xsl:value-of select=" ' Above message MUST be sent to when a person&apos;s vehicle is ' "/>

I am trying to have my output say person's. My compiler is giving me a strange error:

W Error in expression. Unexpected <name> beyond end of expression.


I am confused I thought escaping a single quote was common. I thought it was as simple as &apos;. Any have any suggestions?

thanks.

Hi

lose the <xsl:value-of select and use

<xsl:text>Above message MUST be sent to when a person&apos;s vehicle is</xsl:text>

Thanks.

XML entities are resolved before the XPath parser sets to work, so the XPath parser sees

' Above message MUST be sent to when a person's vehicle is '

which is not a valid string literal. In XPath 2 you can write

' Above message MUST be sent to when a person''s vehicle is '

In XPath 1.0 there's no way of escaping the string delimiter. But you can use

xsl:value-of select='" Above message MUST be sent to when a person&apos;s vehicle is "'

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