Support single quotes to demarcate strings

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Hi Mark,

You wrote:

Would you add support in the XML for single quotes to demarcate strings? It’s much easier to type value="'stringvalue'" rather than value=""stringvalue""

This is a good suggestion. Alternatively, as I just learned, you can use single quotes to delimit the attribute value and double quotes to demarcate the string, i.e. value='"stringvalue"' is valid XML. See the attached example.

Cheers,
Chris

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Attachment: single_quotes.xml (846 Bytes)

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Good find - great!

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Hi Mark,

Per your request, the expression parser now accepts single-quoted strings. This change will be in tonight’s nightly build.

Cheers,
Chris

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Great!

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Hi Chris,

One small nit with string comparisons in XML.

This statement was not working for me (was never true even when the string
value was in fact “ready”).

When I changed it to this, it worked:

I assume this had something to do with $expression parsing. I last tested
it on a nightly a few months ago, so I’m not sure if you fixed it in your
recent changes. But it’s probably worth a testcase.

-Mark