Converting straight quotes to smart quotes in xslt 1.0

[Rakesh Keerthi]

Hi,
I've the below xml

<para>A number of the offences set out in the Companies Ordinance are expressed to apply to "officers" of the company. "Officer" includes directors, managers and the company secretary: Companies Ordinance, s.2(1).</para>

here actually the in the input the quotes given are " but i want to convert it to smart quotes. i used the below xslt for this.

<xsl:template match="para/text()">
<xsl:when test="contains(.,$quot)">
<xsl:value-of select="translate(.,$quot,'“')"/>
<xsl:value-of select="translate(substring-after(.,$quot),$quot,'”')"/>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:template>

but i am getting below output.

A number of the offences set out in the Companies Ordinance are expressed to apply to “officers“ of the company. “Officer“ includes directors, managers and the company secretary: Companies Ordinance, s.2(1).

but i want to get it as below.

A number of the offences set out in the Companies Ordinance are expressed to apply to “officers” of the company. “Officer” includes directors, managers and the company secretary: Companies Ordinance, s.2(1).

please let me know how do i solve this.

Thanks

[g tsuji]

We can consider easily a couple of marginal cases that quotes are not pairing up perfectly. How would the transformation be asked to behave is uncertain as the question is not posed in a general setting... Here is one way that has one marginal behaviour rather than anything else.
<xsl:param name="quot" select="'&quot;'" /> <xsl:template match="para/text()"> <xsl:call-template name="proc"> <xsl:with-param name="s" select="." /> </xsl:call-template> </xsl:template> <xsl:template name="proc"> <xsl:param name="s" /> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="contains($s,$quot)"> <xsl:variable name="seg-before" select="substring-before($s, $quot)" /> <xsl:variable name="seg-temp" select="substring-after($s,$quot)" /> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="contains($seg-temp,$quot)"> <xsl:variable name="seg-between" select="substring-before($seg-temp,$quot)" /> <xsl:variable name="seg-after" select="substring-after($seg-temp,$quot)" /> <xsl:value-of select="concat($seg-before,'“', $seg-between, '”')" /> <xsl:call-template name="proc"> <xsl:with-param name="s" select="$seg-after" /> </xsl:call-template> </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> <!-- no matching quot pair: do nothing --> <xsl:value-of select="$s" /> </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> <xsl:value-of select="$s" /> </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </xsl:template>