Works like a charm. Thank you Jeni and Michael for the help!

-G
p.s. needed the variable to be setup first before it worked as suggested by
Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jeni Tennison
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 12:49 PM
To: Gurnam Bedi
Cc: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Need to detect if a node has a ' or ' or " or
" within it


Hi Gurnam,

> How do I test in a choose if the xml node contains a ' " " OR
> ' in the text value.

Well, ' and ' are the same as far as XSLT is concerned, as are "
and ". So you can use the XPath:

  contains(., '"') or contains(., "'")

In XSLT, this XPath will live inside an attribute so either the
apostrophes or the double-quotes will need to be escaped (and you can
escape both if you like). For example:

  <xsl:if test="contains(., '&quot;') or contains(., &quot;'&quot;)">
    ...
  </xsl:if>

or:

  <xsl:if test='contains(., &apos;"&apos;) or contains(., "&apos;")'>
    ...
  </xsl:if>


Cheers,

Jeni

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