You need to put single quotes around anything you want to treat as a string
in an XPath expression, in your case, . Use select="' '" instead
of select=" ". The latter attempts to find an element named ,
which is an invalid element name anyway, hence the somewhat cryptic error
message.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam Steingold [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 11:27 AM
> To:
> Subject: [docbook-apps] Re: xsl-stylesheets/manpages
>
>
> > * In message <>
> > * On the subject of "Re: Re: xsl-stylesheets/manpages"
> > * Sent on Thu, 15 May 2003 23:29:09 +0100
> > * Honorable Tim Waugh <> writes:
> >
> > > i.e., every option is printed twice!
> > Fixed in CVS; stupid bug (my fault) introduced by merging patches.
>
> indeed, fixed in 1.61.2
>
> > > > Of course you can split them into lines in the template.
> > > how?
> >
> > Using substring-before and a recursive template. But I imagine that
> > there will be situations where you might want a comment in
> the XML but
> > where a forced line break in the output would cause bad
> effects. YMMV
> > though, and you get to choose where you put your comments. :-)
>
> I tried this:
>
> <xsl:template match="comment()">
> <xsl:text> .\""</xsl:text>
> <xsl:call-template name="string.subst">
> <xsl:with-param name="string"><xsl:value-of
> select="."/></xsl:with-param>
> <xsl:with-param name="target" select=" "/>
> <xsl:with-param name="replacement" select=' .\""'/>
> <xsl:text> </xsl:text></xsl:call-template>
> </xsl:template>
>
> errors:
>
> XPath error Invalid expression
>
> ^
> XPath error Invalid expression
> .\""
> ^
> compilation error: file man.xsl line 21 element with-param
> xsl:param : could not compile select expression '
> .\""'
>
> help!
>
>
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