How to pass a string containing both single and double quotes as a parameter to XSLT in PHP?
- by Boaz
Hi,
I have a simple PHP-based XSLT trasform code that looks like that:
$xsl = new XSLTProcessor();
$xsl->registerPHPFunctions();
$xsl->setParameter("","searchterms", $searchterms);
$xsl->importStylesheet($xslDoc);
echo $xsl->transformToXML($doc);
The code passes the variable $searchterms, which contains a string, as a parameter to the XSLT style sheet which in turns uses it as a text:
<title>search feed for <xsl:value-of select="$searchterms"/></title>
This works fine until you try to pass a string with mixes in it, say:
$searchterms = '"some"'." text's quotes are mixed."
In that point the XSLT processor screams:
Cannot create XPath expression (string
contains both quote and double-quotes)
What is the correct way to safely pass arbitrary strings as input to XSLT? Note that these strings will be used as a text value in the resulting XML and not as an XPATH paramater.
Thanks,
Boaz
