I've got a problem reading in and searching through data where the attributes might contain both single and/or double quotes. As they get inserted into an XmlDocument, they get marked up with " and ' properly (which I can tell by looking at OuterXML), but then using xPath to search for them is proving to be inconsistent. It's like I can only write code that works for either double or single quotes at time, depending on what I use to surround the data in the query in the first place. All would be fine if using marked up code in my queries worked, but it doesn't. So anyone know why this code doesn't work: XmlDocument xd = new XmlDocument(); XmlElement xe = xd.CreateElement("Element"); xe.SetAttribute("Attr", "Hello 'world'"); xd.AppendChild(xe); xd.SelectSingleNode("//Element[@Attr=\"Hello 'world'\"]"); xd.SelectSingleNode("//Element[@Attr=\"Hello 'world'\"]"); The first select works fine, but the second one fails. I'm led to believe that they're a direct equivalent, so what's happening here? Thanks for any help!
Minerva Jones wrote: > I've got a problem reading in and searching through data where the > attributes might contain both single and/or double quotes. As they get > inserted into an XmlDocument, they get marked up with " and > ' properly (which I can tell by looking at OuterXML), but then > using xPath to search for them is proving to be inconsistent. It's > like I can only write code that works for either double or single > quotes at time, depending on what I use to surround the data in the > query in the first place. If you need both single and double quote in a string literal then you have two choices, either implement variables or split the string into sections where you use single and double quotes e.g. concat("Hello 'Word', Hello ", '"Word"') I think http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=MVPXML provides variable resolution. -- Martin Honnen --- MVP XML http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/
