XSL - Escaping an apostrophe during xsl:when test

Question

I have the following code which appears to be failing.

<xsl:when test="$trialSiteName = 'Physician&apos;s Office'">

Also, visual studio is complaining saying

"Expected end of expression, found 's"

How am I supposed to escape the character?

XSLT v1.0. Apache XSL-FO processor.

Could your problem be related to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/646194/xsl-character-escape-problem ? If so, try: ' — Dan, Sep 30 '11 at 17:16
@Dan Lehmann - That did not work. I don't think those issues are the same. — P.Brian.Mackey, Sep 30 '11 at 17:24
As a workaround, I am going to remove this character in C# before passing it into the XSLT processor. This won't work for all situations so I will leave this question open. — P.Brian.Mackey, Sep 30 '11 at 17:31

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 01 '11 at 01:35

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Much more simple -- use:

   <xsl:when test="$trialSiteName = &quot;Physician&apos;s Office&quot;">

answered Oct 01 '11 at 01:35

Dimitre Novatchev

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 30 '11 at 18:19

7

Declare a variable:

<xsl:variable name="apos" select='"&apos;"'/>

Use the variable like this in the <xsl:when> clause:

<xsl:when test="$trialSiteName = concat('Physician', $apos, 's Office')">

answered Sep 30 '11 at 18:19

mzjn

Prageeth godage · Answer 3 · 2018-10-04T05:21:38.813

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in between " you can add what ever special characters you want.

<xsl:when test="$trialSiteName = &quot;Physician's what ever special charactors plainly add Office&quot;">

edited Oct 04 '18 at 05:21

answered Jun 07 '18 at 08:05

Prageeth godage

score 1 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:10

1

' works for XPath 1.0. If you are using XSLT 2.0 with XPath 2.0 try double apostrophe:

<xsl:when test="$trialSiteName = 'Physician''s Office'">

Look for a full explanation by Dimitre Novatchev in his answer Escape single quote in xslt concat function

edited May 23 '17 at 10:10

Community

answered Sep 30 '11 at 17:13

Phillip Kovalev

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This did not work. Visual studio still displays error. Logic does not execute correctly. – P.Brian.Mackey Sep 30 '11 at 17:28
@_Phillip: Yes, it *is* possible to use the same technique :) – Dimitre Novatchev Oct 01 '11 at 01:38

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