XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference, 4th Edition (292 page)

BOOK: XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference, 4th Edition
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Within XML text nodes, apostrophes and quotation marks can be written literally without escaping—there is no need to use the entity references
'
and
"
.

I find it quite useful to have two global variables available in a stylesheet, as follows:



This makes it possible to use the variables
$apos
and
$quot
to construct strings using the
concat()
function, for example:


Names

Names are used within an XPath expression to refer to elements and attributes in a source document, and to refer to objects such as variables, functions, and types.

Expression
Lexical Rules
QName
(Prefix
:
)?
LocalPart
Prefix
NCName
LocalPart
NCName
NCName
(Letter |
_
) (NCNameChar) *
NCNameChar
Letter |
Digit |
.
|
-
|
_
|
CombiningChar |
Extender

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