Re: [xslt] Pull request : xsltproc --fileparam

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent+gnome vinc17 org>]

On 2018-01-17 18:40:50 +0100, Nick Wellnhofer wrote:
> On 17/01/2018 18:11, Edouard Tisserant wrote:
> > Mainly to be able to import files/string that contain a random mix of
> > double and simple quotes.
> >
> > xsltproc --stringparam paramname "a\"b'c"
>
> I have no idea why xsltproc disallows mixing of single and double quotes in
> stringparams. This makes no sense to me and should definitely be changed.

I suspect that internally, xsltproc transforms the argument to
a string (as an XPath expression) by enclosing it with either
single quotes or double quotes, depending on what the argument
doesn't have (instead of encoding the ones chosen for delimiting
the string).

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