XSL / XPATH: how to test if text contains apostrophe

[Michael]

Hallo,

for some reasons of calling functions with parameters, i have to test
if a text-node contains an apostrophe. My problem is that i cannot
write something like <xsl:if test="contains(., ''')">.
So i tried using entities or escaping, like that:
<xsl:if test="contains(., '&apos;')">
or:
<xsl:if test="contains(., '\'')">
but both didn't work.
Further problem is that i have to translate these apostrophes into
escaped ones like \' (<xsl:value-of select="translate(., '&apos;',
'\&apos;')" /> or <xsl:value-of select="translate(., '\'', '\'')" />).

Is there any way solving this problem.
Thanks a lot for your help.

Michael

 

[Martin Honnen]

Michael wrote:

So i tried using entities or escaping, like that:
<xsl:if test="contains(., '&apos;')">

Further problem is that i have to translate these apostrophes into
escaped ones like \' (<xsl:value-of select="translate(., '&apos;',
'\&apos;')" /> or <xsl:value-of select="translate(., '\'', '\'')" />).

translate replaces a single character with a single character if you
want to have some string replacement then you need to write your own
recursive template doing that or you can use one of the implementations
around on the web e.g.
<http://www.exslt.org/str/functions/replace/index.html>