I'm writing an XSLT template that need to output a valid xml file for an xml Sitemap.
<url>
<loc>
<xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:NiceUrl($node/@id)"/>
</loc>
<lastmod>
<xsl:value-of select="concat($node/@updateDate,'+00:00')"/>
</lastmod>
</url>
Unfortunately, Url that is output contains an apostrophe - /what's-new.aspx
I need to escape the ' to '
for google Sitemap. Unfortunately every attempt I've tried treats the string ''
' as if it was ''' which is invalid - frustrating. XSLT can drive me mad sometimes.
Any ideas for a technique? (Assume I can find my way around XSLT 1.0 templates and functions)
So you have '
in your input, but you need the string
in your output?
In your XSL file, replace '
with &apos;
, using this find/replace implementation (unless you are using XSLT 2.0):
<xsl:template name="string-replace-all">
<xsl:param name="text"/>
<xsl:param name="replace"/>
<xsl:param name="by"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($text,$replace)">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($text,$replace)"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$by"/>
<xsl:call-template name="string-replace-all">
<xsl:with-param name="text" select="substring-after($text,$replace)"/>
<xsl:with-param name="replace" select="$replace"/>
<xsl:with-param name="by" select="$by"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$text"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
Call it this way:
<loc>
<xsl:call-template name="string-replace-all">
<xsl:with-param name="text" select="umbraco.library:NiceUrl($node/@id)"/>
<xsl:with-param name="replace" select="'"/>
<xsl:with-param name="by" select="&apos;"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</loc>
The problem is '
is interpreted by XSL as '
. &apos;
will be interpreted as '
.
The simple way to remove unwanted characters from your URL is to change the rules umbraco uses when it generates the NiceUrl.
Edit the config/umbracoSettings.config
add a rule to remove all apostrophes from NiceUrls like so:
<urlReplacing>
...
<char org="'"></char> <!-- replace ' with nothing -->
...
</urlReplacing>
Note: The contents of the "org" attribute is replaced with the contents of the element, here's another example:
<char org="+">plus</char> <!-- replace + with the word plus -->
Have you tried setting disable-output-escaping to yes for your xsl:value-of element:
<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="umbraco.library:NiceUrl($node/@id)"/>
Actually - this is probably the opposite of what you want.
How about wrapping the xsl:value-of in an xsl:text element?
<xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:NiceUrl($node/@id)"/></xsl:text>
Perhaps you should try to translate '
to &apos;
This will work, you just need to change TWO params as given below
<xsl:with-param name="replace">'</xsl:with-param>
<xsl:with-param name="by" >AnyString</xsl:with-param>