Basically what I want is

<menu><entry title='singlequotedtitle' link='singlequotedlink'></entry><entry title='somemoresinglequotedtitle' link='/etc/page.aspx'></entry></menu>

And I get:

<menu><entry title="doublequotedtitle" link="doublequotedlink: /><entry title="moretitle" link="morelink" /></menu>

which does not work for me.

any ideas

Other than treating the output as text and manually processing it I don't think XSLT nor .NET framework transformation classes have an option for that.

I've not tried this, but you could play around with the 'output' method

<
 
xsl:output method="html"
/>

You can also set it to 'text'.

Thanks for the replies.

However, setting the output method to html, helps me getting the end tags back, but the main thing: I still have " in my string.

Can I use the replace function? How would I use it?

Hi SiKo279,

Do you have control of the parsing on the other end? XML parsers should handle single/double quotes and self-closing tags without any issues - it's part of XML itself.

The reason I ask this is that you seem to be buying yourself a world of pain by trying to force different output.

That said, it is possible to achieve something along these lines by using xsl:text; e.g.

    <menu>
      <xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::node [@level=$level]/node [string(data [@alias='umbracoNaviHide']) != '1']">
        <xsl:text disable-output-escaping='yes'>&lt;entry title='</xsl:text>
        <xsl:value-of select='@nodeName'/>
        <xsl:text>' link='</xsl:text>
        <xsl:value-of select='umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)'/>
        <xsl:text disable-output-escaping='yes'>'&gt;&lt;/entry&gt;</xsl:text>
      </xsl:for-each>
    </menu>

You may need to change your output from xml to html or text for this to work. I've used this technique to output Adobe Tagged Text format from an XML input document, but I didn't find it fun.

Best to use an XML parser on the other end  - if you can.

Cheers,
JT

Thank you for the reply.

I navigated away from this approach and ended up passing the (menu/navigation) data from xml to some flat delimited text format.

If in the future, data structures should become more complex, I will use the code you posted a try.

The problem was that the parameter in html is specified with "<content>". If the content contains ", the string gets terminated prematurely. Hence I wanted to replace them with ' ... Maybe I'm still missing something?

I was specifying the 'InitParams" property of a silverlight object. Below is the code and format of the quick and dirty route I took:

    <object id= ...

    <param name="InitParams" value=
"
menuEntries=Local Service|/local.aspx*
Estimates|/locksmith-costs-estimates.aspx*
Security Tips|/security-tips.aspx*
FAQ|/faq.aspx*
Contact|/contact-locksmith-service.aspx*
About Us|/about-us.aspx*
" 
     />

I wanted to to pass a string containing xml (see first posts) and use linq to access the data.

All fine now though, but still a bit old fashioned :)

Thanks for your thoughts!

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