Escaping quotes in XPath expressions

Hello all,

Can anyone please tell me how I can escape a single-quote in an XPath expression 
such as the one below?

<xsl:value-of select="translate(normalize-space(.), 'x', 'y')"/>

If I use 'x' and 'y' as the search and replace arguments, everything works well. But I 
need to search for single-quotes and replace them with backslash + single-quote. In 
other words, my XPath expression would look something like this:

translate(normalize-space(.), ''', '\'')

Except, of course, that I can't use a single-quote (character) between two single-quotes 
(string delimiters). Backslashes don't escape anything, of course, and using XML 
entities (&quot;) inside the search and replace strings won't work either.

But I just feel there must be a way to do this...

Thanks,

Erik

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