I have some JavaScript functions that, on click of a glossed word, open a
new window and writes to it with document.write.  That all works fine except
there is potential for it to break if the defintion contains a single quote.
Is there some way to apply-templates and search for the single quote
character and prepend the js escape character "\" to the single quote?

<xsl:template name="fixQuotes">
  <xsl:param name="do.quote"/>
  <xsl:param name="string"/>
  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="$do.quote">
      <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="contains($string, &quot;'&quot;)">
          <xsl:value-of
            select="substring-before($string, &quot;'&quot;)"/>
          <xsl:text>\'</xsl:text>
          <xsl:call-template name="fixQuotes">
            <xsl:with-param name="do.quote" select="$do.quote"/>
            <xsl:with-param name="string"
              select="substring-after($string, &quot;'&quot;)"/>
          </xsl:call-template>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>
          <xsl:value-of select="$string"/>
        </xsl:otherwise>
      </xsl:choose>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
      <xsl:value-of select="$string"/>
    </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

HTH,
Chris
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