Subject: RE: How to select for ' in XPATH?
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 18:20:11 +0100
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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
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