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RE: [xml-dev] Preserving single quotes in an XML document when applying

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To: "'Christer Nordvik'" <christer.nordvik@trafsys.no>
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Preserving single quotes in an XML document when applying a XSL stylesheet
From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 18:07:02 -0000
Cc: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
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Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com>

I have an XML document containing single and double quotes. When I apply my XSL stylesheet then it converts the single quotes to double quotes. Are there any way to preserve the single quotes?

I used to use this as my canonical example of a "lexical" feature in XML that no-one would ever expect to be retained through a transformation...

XSLT is a transformation of the information set. Any details that aren't part of the infoset are lost. That can be inconvenient when you are hand-editing the XML, but it doesn't lose information; or if it does lose information, then you are misusing XML.

Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@ntlworld.com
work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com

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