Re: [xslt] xsltproc --param

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 04:00:13AM -0700, Daniel Allen wrote:
> Daniel,
> 
> Thank you for the quick response...I do believe that
> libxslt is incredible, don't get me wrong, I just hope
> to understand these small differences...
> 
> okay, I tried the single quote bit with
> 
> --param foo '"this is a single \' quote"'
> 
> and the commandline just wraps around to a
> >
> and I am stuck...
> 
> My question is, why 2 quotes?? why not just use double

  It's incredibly simple:
    - one for the shell so that it doesn't cut at blanks level
    - one for XPath to tell him it is a string and not a nodeset 
      lookup expression

> foo="<root><node></node></root>"
> 
> and the param becomes an internal nodeset of
> <root>
>  <node></node>
> </root>

 Pertaining to what document ???
Trying to put structured data on a command line is a recipe for failure.
Use a file and xsl:document() to read the tree.

Daniel

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