or of course, just enclose it in ' ' to make it a string.........

:-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vinoth Palaniappan [mailto:vinoth@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 12 August 2002 11:17
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  hoe to use "(" within a variable
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 	I need to define a variable in XSL sheet as follows:
> <xsl:variable name="entering_log" select='sprintf(log_str, 
> "\n%s: %d: %s:
> %s", __FILE__,__LINE__,fn, "Entering"); log_func();' ></xsl:variable>
> 	I'm getting an error: "Could not find function: 
> sprintf()" from the
> XSL engine. How to escape the characters ( ) " ' so that they will be
> interpreted as normal text by the XSL engine.
> 
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