How to show single quotes

anarleti · July 7th, 2010, 08:36 AM

Hi,

i have requiremnet ..
where they want to show the url in single quotes like below
<nyomtatvanyok xmlns='http://www.apeh.hu/abev/nyomtatvanyok/2005/01'>

Though in my xsl i mentioned single quotes, in my out put it is showing double quotes
<nyomtatvanyok xmlns="http://www.apeh.hu/abev/nyomtatvanyok/2005/01">

may i know how to display the single quotes for url.iam using XLST verion 1

Thanks
Anil

Martin Honnen · July 7th, 2010, 08:44 AM

I am afraid the choice of the quote character is not something XSLT gives you control for. If you look at http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#output for XSLT 1.0 or http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#serialization the you will not find a way to control or specify the quote character.
If you use a .NET XSLT processor like XslCompiledTransform then you might be able to achieve what you want by using an XmlTextWriter for serialization as that has a property http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...quotechar.aspx. But that is specific to a platform and of course it does not allow you to use a single quote for one attribute and double for another, all attributes would be delimited by the same quote character.

mhkay · July 7th, 2010, 09:43 AM

Generally XML parsers don't tell the application what kind of quotes were used around an attribute value in an input XML document; therefore XSLT takes the view that the receiving application won't care what kind of quotes were used, and it therefore provides no control over which kind are used in the serialized output.

(I sometimes use this as an example of the kind of feature that no-one would possibly want...)