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[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: How to select for ' in XPATH?
 I don't really know anything about the shell that you are using and any escaping or unescaping that it is doing, so it's a bit hard to tell. The general rule in XPath 2.0 is that if a string literal is enclosed in single quotes, an apostrophe should be represented as a pair of adjacent apostrophes. Regards, Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ http://twitter.com/michaelhkay > -----Original Message----- > From: Hermann Stamm-Wilbrandt [mailto:STAMMW@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 05 August 2009 18:04 > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: How to select for ' in XPATH? > > > Hello, > > I tried to select for special characters with XPATH below. > While I succeeded for some I am unable to select for the > ' character (') and got an error message. > > Any hint how this can be done? > > $ xmlsh > $ cat tst.html > <html><body> > <p>lt and gt: < > </p> > <p>apos and quot: ' " </p> > </body></html> > $ tidy -q -xml tst.html; > <html> > <body> > <p>lt and gt: < ></p> > <p>apos and quot: ' "</p> > </body> > </html> > > $ xpath "/*/*/*[contains(normalize-space(.),'<')]" <tst.html > <p>lt and gt: < > </p> $ xpath > "/*/*/*[contains(normalize-space(.),'>')]" <tst.html <p>lt > and gt: < > </p> $ xpath > "/*/*/*[contains(normalize-space(.),'\"')]" <tst.html <p>apos > and quot: ' " </p> $ xpath > "/*/*/*[contains(normalize-space(.),'\'')]" <tst.html > Exception running: xpath > net.sf.saxon.s9api.SaxonApiException: XPath syntax error at char 34 in > {...ontains(normalize-space(.),...}: > Unmatched quote in expression > $ > > > Mit besten Gruessen / Best wishes, > > Hermann Stamm-Wilbrandt > Developer, XML Compiler > WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Vorsitzender des > Aufsichtsrats: Martin Jetter > Geschaeftsfuehrung: Erich Baier > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Boeblingen > Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294 
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