Hi,
I need to extract element from a document in case inner text node contains certain sequence of characters.
The problem is that I can't do this in case the sequence contains quotation mark.
 
causes "A string literal was not closed" error in Microsoft XML parser 3.0. Of course I could use single quotation marks instead of double ones for string termination, but then the same problem would be for single quotation mark inside the string to search.

Thanks in advance

XPath 2.0 allows a quote within a string to be escaped by doubling it (as in SQL) (not by escaping with "\" as in C or Java).

XPath 1.0 provides no such mechanism. You can write ' within a string delimited by ", or " within a string delimited by '. If you want both, you have to use concat():

text() = concat("He said,", '"', "I won't", '"')



Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Michael,

Thanks a lot.