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(_at_)de(_dot_)ibm(_dot_)com]
Sent: 05 August 2009 18:04
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] 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
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