There was a typo in my last email, '%22' works for "
"/*/*/*[contains(normalize-space(.),'%22')])"
and '%27' does not work for '
( the %22 gets converted to " character by unescape(s) )

> you are left with breaking up the string into components that
> contain no single quote and components that contain a single quote and
> then concatenate them e.g. if the selection on the page is e.g.
> What's that?
> you use
> "//*[contains(., concat('What', \"'\", ' that?')"

Good idea to break this up and concatenate.
But the basic problem remains, how to match for the single " ?

\"'\" does not work :-(

> Implementing breaking up the string with JavaScript should be possible
>although having to stuff all that into a bookmarklet might get ugly.
Perhaps this might get ugly, but not without a solution to match for
the single " character ...

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