I have an XML document that describes the structure of a web site. To determine selected state, I need to do something like this:

/site/level1::descendant-or-self[@name='Current Page Name']

where 'Current Page Name' can be anything, including text with a forward slash (/) in it. How do I escape or work around this?

You don't need to escape a forward slash appearing within a string literal.

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

Does 'Current Page Name' qualify as a string literal or is there stronger qualification I can use? Unfortunately I'm working in ASP; not sure if that makes any difference.

Thanks.

Sorry, I'm stupid. That problem seems to have cleared itself up with something else I changed. Thanks for your time.

If you write

contains(xyz, '........')

then the thing between quotes is a string literal, and can contain any characters except "'" or characters that are reserved in XML, e.g. ", &, <

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