XSL - escaping the apostrophe during xsl: when testing

Question

I have the following code that seems to fail.

<xsl:when test="$trialSiteName = 'Physician&apos;s Office'"> 

In addition, the visual studio complains about the statement.

"Expected end of expression found"

How do I escape a character?

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XSLT v1.0. Apache XSL-FO processor.

Answer 1

Much easier - use :

  <xsl:when test="$trialSiteName = &quot;Physician&apos;s Office&quot;"> 

Answer 2

• Declare a variable:

   <xsl:variable name="apos" select='"&apos;"'/> 

• Use a variable like this in the <xsl:when> clause:

   <xsl:when test="$trialSiteName = concat('Physician', $apos, Office')"> 

Answer 3

' works for XPath 1.0. If you are using XSLT 2.0 with XPath 2.0, try a double apostrophe:

 <xsl:when test="$trialSiteName = 'Physician' Office'"> 

Look for a complete explanation of Dimitry Novachev in his answer Escape single quote in concat xslt function