Re: [xml] String Literals in XPath

[Matt Sergeant <matt sergeant org>]

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On Tuesday 23 April 2002 4:00 pm, 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).

Well I for one am glad to see this. It's incredibly frustrating to have to use 
concat() to build up strings with multiple quotes.

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