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I'm trying this: <root> text: &#27; </root> But parser says: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 2; columnNumber: 12; Character reference "&#27" is an invalid XML character. at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(Unknown Source) at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.parse(DocumentBuilder.java:121) How to use it there? You cannot ( in XML 1.0) . In XML 1.1 there is a slightly larger range of characters you can use, and the characters are expressed differently , but even then, &#27; is 'restricted' (hex it is &#x1B;

I want to call fn:replace inside EL inside c:out to replace quote caracters. The following does not work <c:out value="${fn:replace(userName,'"','\\"')}"/> because XML parser stops at first double quote and sees no c:cout tag termination (JSP compilation stage error). The following <c:out value="${fn:replace(userName,'"','\\"')}"/> does not work, probably because replace function does not see actual quote character. BalusC Parameterize them with <c:set> . <c:set var="search" value='"' /> <c:set var="replace" value='\\"' /> <c:out value="${fn:replace(userName, search, replace)}"/> Unrelated to

I'm looking for something similar to preg_quote, but for the MySQL regexp syntax. Any ideas? MySQL regexps are the ‘extended’ POSIX variant (ERE), available in PHP as the deprecated ereg_ functions. Unfortunately there is no ereg_quote in PHP, however PCRE's special characters are a superset of ERE's special characters, and backslash-escaping a non-special punctuation character doesn't harm it, so you can get away with using preg_quote safely. (Naturally you will need parameterised queries or mysql_real_escape_string after that quoting, to stop the backslashes being misinterpreted as MySQL's

In following code, the usage of the string "“" (i.e. a left double quotation mark inside a string) results in a compile error in VB.NET: StringVar = Replace(StringVar, "“", "“") What’s going on here? It seems as if you want to replace curly quotes with their HTML code equivalent. On the first glance, your code is absolutely correct. The problem is that VB allows curly quotes in place of regular quotes in code (because Unicode is great, right?). That is, the following codes are all equivalent: Dim str = "hello" Dim str = “hello” Dim str = "hello“ Now, if you want to use a quotation mark inside

I'm trying to do something in bash with sed that is proving to be extremely difficult. I have a bash script that takes as its first argument a date. The code want to change a line in a text file to include the passed date. Here's the code #!/bin/bash cq_fname="%let outputfile="/user/cq_"$1".csv";" sed "29s/.*/\"$ct_fname\"/" file1.sas > file2.sas This script fails on the third line, I get something about a garbled command. Does anybody know a clever way to get this to work? How can I get a forward slash in quotes in sed ? You can use any character in place of the / , so just pick one that is

I am able to split strings in the format key:value; using the following code: $inside = "key1:value1;key2:value2;key3:value3;"; preg_match_all("/([^:]+):([^;]+);/s", $inside, $pairs); What I would like to do is allow for the occurrence of the colon and semi-colon character in the values by introducing an escape character e.g. \; any colon or semi-colon immediately preceded by a backslash would be ignored. Bonus points if within the same regex, the escaped characters can then be stored in the array of matches unescaped without having to run everything through str_replace . Thanks for any help

I've got an XSL template that outputs text as opposed to XML. In this text, I need to include ASCII character 0x10 in certain position. I understand this character is not allowed in an XML document, but I'm going to output text, so why am I not allowed to use it anyway? I also understand it will not be possible to put this character literally into the template, neither within a CDATA section nor as &#16; . But why does on-the-fly generation not work either? I tried, for instance, to define a function that returns this char and used it as <xsl:value-of select="z:get_char(16)"/> but that