Question on " inside function arguments

**Marrow** · Jul 20 '05, 05:45 AM

Re: Question on &quot; inside function arguments

Hi David,

In XPath strings can be delimited by either single (') or double
(") marks. So your template could read...

<xsl:template
match="row[starts-with(translate( @VendorName,'ab cdefghijklmnopq rstuvwxyz','A
BCDEFGHIJKLMNOP QRSTUVWXYZ'),tr anslate('A&quot ;','abcdefghijk lmnopqrstuvwxyz '
,'ABCDEFGHIJKLM NOPQRSTUVWXYZ') )]">

Although using a template match for this is probably quite inefficient. For
two reasons...
i) because you are trying to do things in a template @match you cannot use
variables - which means that for every predicate [] filter evaluation you
are having to uppercase the string being searched for (i.e. that second
translate() call on 'A"').
ii) also, because the filtering is being done at the template match, you are
sending out nodes that you are uninterested in - which are being caught by
the XSLT built-in rule templates (which may mean that if at some point in
the future your <row> elements have any text node children you may end up
with unexpected text in the output).

I assume at some point you are going to parameterize the search - at which
point using template matches for the filtering will become impossible. You
might want to try something like...

<xsl:styleshe et version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http ://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:sql="urn: schemas-microsoft-com:xml-sql">
<xsl:output method="xml"/>
<xsl:param name="search-for" select="'a&quot ;'"/>

<xsl:variable name="uc-search-for"
select="transla te($search-for,'abcdefghij klmnopqrstuvwxy z','ABCDEFGHIJK LMNOP
QRSTUVWXYZ')"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
<NEXXML>
<rows>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</rows>
</NEXXML>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="rows">
<xsl:apply-templates
select="row[starts-with(translate( @VendorName,'ab cdefghijklmnopq rstuvwxyz','
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO PQRSTUVWXYZ'),$ uc-search-for)]"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="row">
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Which, apart from making the code dynamic, will perform about twice as fast
as your original fixed stylesheet.

Hope this helps
Marrow
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"David Furey" <dave@furey.fsn et.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> I have an XML documnet and a XSLT document as shown below
>
> THe XSLT document brings back a filtered docmument that has the VendorName
> that starts with a particular sub-string
> This works as expected with alphabet and number characters and the '[/color]
(single[color=blue]
> quote ' entity) character but does not work if a double quote[/color]
character[color=blue]
> " is part of the string to filter on
> This returns all Vendor Names that begin with A (either case)
>
> The XML Document
>
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="C:\XSL1.x sl"?>
> <NEXXML xmlns:sql="urn: schemas-microsoft-com:xml-sql">
> <columns/>
> <rows>
> <row SAPVendorRef="1 5001" VendorName="A&q uot; A Meats" EntityId="3021"
> rsposition="1"/>
> <row SAPVendorRef="5 7232" VendorName="Abb eyhouse Foods" EntityId="3050"
> rsposition="2"/>
> <row SAPVendorRef="1 5011" VendorName="Ale xandra Rentals" EntityId="3023"
> rsposition="3"/>
> <row SAPVendorRef="1 0184" VendorName="Ale xandra Workwear PLC"
> EntityId="3014" rsposition="4"/>
> <row SAPVendorRef="1 5012" VendorName="All ied Bakeries NI" EntityId="3024"
> rsposition="5"/>
> <row SAPVendorRef="6 0143" VendorName="Ast ron On Line" EntityId="3056"
> rsposition="6"/>
> <row SAPVendorRef="5 6531" VendorName="Bac kgammo'n" EntityId="3048"
> rsposition="7"/>
> <row SAPVendorRef="1 5062" VendorName="Bri tish Bakeries NI" EntityId="3025"
> rsposition="8"/>
> </rows>
> </NEXXML>
>
> The XSLT Document
>
> <xsl:styleshe et version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http ://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
> xmlns:sql="urn: schemas-microsoft-com:xml-sql">
> <xsl:output method="xml"/>
> <xsl:template match="/">
> <NEXXML>
> <rows>
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </rows>
> </NEXXML>
> </xsl:template>
> <xsl:template match="rows">
> <xsl:apply-templates select="row"/>
> </xsl:template>
> <xsl:template match="row[ starts-with(translate(
>[/color]
@VendorName,&qu ot;abcdefghijkl mnopqrstuvwxyz& quot;,"ABC DEFGHIJKLMNOPQR S[color=blue]
>[/color]
TUVWXYZ"), translate(&quot ;A"," abcdefghijklmno pqrstuvwxyz&quo t[color=blue]
> ;,"ABCDEFG HIJKLMNOPQRSTUV WXYZ")) ]">
> <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
> </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> If I want to search on the string A" the line
>
> <xsl:template match="row[ starts-with(translate(
>[/color]
@VendorName,&qu ot;abcdefghijkl mnopqrstuvwxyz& quot;,"ABC DEFGHIJKLMNOPQR S[color=blue]
>[/color]
TUVWXYZ"), translate(&quot ;A"," abcdefghijklmno pqrstuvwxyz&quo t[color=blue]
> ;,"ABCDEFG HIJKLMNOPQRSTUV WXYZ")) ]">
> <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
>
> changes to:
>
> <xsl:template match="row[ starts-with(translate(
>[/color]
@VendorName,&qu ot;abcdefghijkl mnopqrstuvwxyz& quot;,"ABC DEFGHIJKLMNOPQR S[color=blue]
>[/color]
TUVWXYZ"), translate(&quot ;A"", "abcdefghi jklmnopqrstuvwx y[color=blue]
> z","A BCDEFGHIJKLMNOP QRSTUVWXYZ&quot ;)) ]">
> <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
>
> I now get an error Expected token ')' found 'STRING'
>
> From what I can see, this is because the XML parser reads the translate
> function intereprets the 1st " as the start of the first argument and
> interprets the 2nd " as the end of the 1st argument, instead of being
> part of the first argument and then expects a comma (,) and the second
> string argument
>
> How I can make the parser take the 2nd quote as part of the first string
> argument if there is a quote in the 1st argument
> I know I could probably do this by replacing the double quotes with single
> quotes but then I am assumming I will get the same problem with single
> quotes been part of the literal string.
>
> Your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance
>
> Regards David Furey
>
>
>[/color]

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