Re: [clr-dev] Quotes in key values

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

At 2008-03-05 15:44 +0100, Linda van den Brink wrote:
>When using the Crane method for transforming CVA+Genericode to
>Schematron, I stumbled upon the following:
>
>"This methodology does not support key values containing single
>quotes: "'s-Hertogenbosch" in list: xmlid=aanduidingreeks"
>
>The list is a list of Dutch city names and unfortunately there are
>city names that start with a single quote... Since it is a list of
>unique names, I would like to be able to use them as key values, but
>because of the quotes I apparently can't.
>
>Is this a limitation of the Crane stylesheets or is there something
>about this in the Genericode spec?

It is only a limitation of Crane's stylesheets ... because of the 
XPath expressions that are created as a result of the 
transformation.  Genericode says nothing about its implementation so 
there is nothing restricting the content of keys in genericode.  This 
is only an implementation issue.

I would be pleased to address this and will do so ASAP ... I was 
unaware of the prevalence of coded values with single quotes, and had 
thought this was a safe restriction.

Because XPath expressions are specified in attributes, the treatment 
of single and double quotes is laborious.

I will announce a revision of the implementation when it is complete 
... I am teaching today and tomorrow but will try to fit it into the 
available time.

Thank you, Linda, for bringing this to my attention.

. . . . . . . . . . . . Ken

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