I'm getting a parsing error returned when executing the xpath statement. Below is the code I am using.

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Dim matchText : matchText="<span style='font-size:12pt; font-family:""Times New Roman""; color:#000000;'>file</span>"
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Set identNodeList = itemNode.selectNodes("/item[text=""" & matchText & """]/@ident")
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The error I get is:

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Expected token ']' found 'NAME'.

/item/text="<span style='font-size:12pt; font-family:"-->Times<--New Roman"; color:#000000;'>file</span>"]/@ident
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It seems like the quote before the text "Times" is being treated as a closing quote. I need these quotes to be part of the string I am searching for. I also tried replacing the double quotes with the escape character &quot; as follows:

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Dim matchText : matchText="<span style='font-size:12pt; font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color:#000000;'>file</span>"
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Set identNodeList = itemNode.selectNodes("/item[text=""" & matchText & """]/@ident")
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The above code executes without error but it does not select any nodes.

My question is, how do you build a xpath query that contains single and double quotes as the value you are looking for?

Please advise.

Set identNodeList = itemNode.selectNodes("/item[text=" & " & " & matchText & " &" & "]/@ident")

plz try thiz

try this:)

Set identNodeList = itemNode.selectNodes("/item[text=" & chr(34) & matchText & chr(34) & "]/@ident")

use chr(34) wherever required like if u want to search a word with double quotes like - "help"
give as chr(34) & help & chr(34)