Re: [xml] String Literals in XPath

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 04:00:39PM +0100, Richard Jinks wrote:
> Hi
>
> Whilst writing a couple of our own extension functions for XPath, I've found
> my self needing to use nested quotes within string literals in XPath
> expressions.
>
> I've just done a quick scan of the XPath 2.0 working draft, and the
> associated W3C comments mailing list, and it found a comment suggesting that
> they are considering allowing you to double up quotes, i.e.
> 'He said "I didn''t"' (the example as used in the post).
>
> I've already tweaked my copy of libxml (needed to modify
> xmlXPathParseLiteral() and xmlXPathCompLiteral()) to handle this case, and
> was wondering if there would be interest in me submitting a patch so that it
> could be included in libxml?

   Hum, that's annoying. That means a conformance breakage. On the other
hand such a patch shall not be lost. I suggest you send it to the list for
archival first, and then people discuss whether this shall be integrated or
not.

Daniel

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