how do I leave """ in the output

I have an XML file that has a comment field in which the data
provider, very kindly, already uses """ when writing "doesn't", I
have doesn't .

it's PERFECT, because that xml is then fed to an XSLT sheet that
transforms this text into a sql insert statement. UNFORTUNATELY, XSLT
translates doesn't into doesn't in the output . How do I tell
my XSLT to leave well-enough alone ? I know it has to be easy, but I
just don't get it right now.

Thanks a lot.

re: how do I leave """ in the output

LionelAndJen@gmail.com wrote:To ask for help with a detail of XSLT processing of XML data for (though
this is incidental) the purpose of creating SQL statements, do you
really think a newsgroup concerned with authoring HTML for the web is
the place you're most likely to get it?

re: how do I leave """ in the output

Harlan Messinger wrote:Why not? This is also an HTML issue: is there any other way to show an
apostrophe?

re: how do I leave """ in the output

RickMerrill schreef:Of course there is,
I could use a ballpen and put one on paper.

You think a question about XSLT processing belongs in a literature
newsgroup?

--
rob

re: how do I leave """ in the output

RW wrote:Ah, I imagined this group was more about HTML than about Authoring - if
that is what you mean by "literature."

I have recently been 'bit' by the apostrophe problem, so I was
interested it that issue. The OP's problem is more complex, but then
my problem also involves getting the apostrophe through javascript from
C++ and thence into HTML. www.batco.tv

re: how do I leave """ in the output

RickMerrill wrote:
Then why didn't you ask _that_ question? You're supposed to ask you HTML
questions here and other questions elsewhere.

There is a huge number to represent an apostrophe in HTML. I have sent a
detailed description of them to the e-mail address you have announced. It
was so boring that I deleted the copy of the message from my mail box, so if
you didn't get it for some odd reason, too bad.

If you seriously want to know about the ways to write "don't" in HTML, the
first question should be: which character should I use for the apostrophe,
instead of the banal computerized misrepresentation known as ASCII
apostrophe (')?

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Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

re: how do I leave """ in the output

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:'

re: how do I leave """ in the output

RickMerrill wrote:
So you apparently did not learn anything from the e-mail I sent to you. Too
bad.

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Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

re: how do I leave """ in the output

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:Sorry I didn't get it. Perhaps you didn't clip out the "nospam."
int he email domain. Pls try again.

re: how do I leave """ in the output

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

Idiot.

ploink!

re: how do I leave """ in the output

RickMerrill schreef:You’re not doing yourself a favor with this. It takes some nerve to get
used to Jukka’s style, but his comments are valuable.

I’ll spoil his hints by giving you the answer in clear text: do not use
', use a proper quote or apostrophe sign. Have a look at Unicode: ‘, ’,
“, ” are the symbols you want. No trouble with rewrite stuff and
escaping at all.

H.
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Hendrik Maryns
http://tcl.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~hendrik/
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re: how do I leave """ in the output

Hendrik Maryns wrote:The behavior of responding by email and concealing hints can be
characterized as trollish. But I'll consider your endorsement.
The choice of proper quote or apostrophe sign is not mine: j-random
users may type any old thing, so I have to be prepared to convert.