Html output genreated by the xsl should have a single quote

Question

hi
i am trying to convert the xml into html .
For one particular field i need to invoke a javscript method on
click. a value has to be passed to this javascript method. for
this i need a single quote or a double quote to come in the
output.
<a href ="javascript:loadPage('Student')"/> is what my output
should look like but i ma getting it as
<a href ="javascript:loadPage(&apos;Student&apos)"/> which is
invalid.
i am constructing the string like
<xsl:variable name="pageName" select="'Student'"/>
<a>
<xsl:attribute name="href">
<xsl:value-of select="concat('javascript:loadPage
(',&apos;,$pageName,&apos;,')')"/>
</xsl:attribute>
Also i tried declaring a variable and using it instead of &apos;
<xsl:varaible name="squote">'</xsl:variable>
how to overcome this problem ?

Answer 1

This was a bug in 9.0.1
It's fixed in 9.0.2. For example, using the following slight
modification of your example with 9.0.2D Beta, I get the right
answer:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:variable name="pageName" select="'Employee'"/>
<xsl:variable name="apos">&apos;</xsl:variable>
<a>
  <xsl:attribute name="href">
    <xsl:value-of select="concat('javascript:loadPage(',
                                 $apos,
                                 $pageName,
                                 $apos,
                                 )"/>
  </xsl:attribute>
foo
</a>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>Notice that I've created a variable named apos and use
that in the concat() instead of directly using the character
reference. This makes things clearer, I think, and easier to
look at visually.