You could use XPath variables to get around this. Then your XPath expression
could be
//a[@n=$str]
Then you could create a VariableContext and put any old string containing
any number of quote characters.
James
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From: "Jason Long" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 7:13 PM
Subject: [Jaxen] Escaping ' and " in xpath strings
> I have been working on an application that uses both jdom and jaxen.
>
> Here is and example of my problem?
>
> String str = "Johnny's Dinner";
> XPath xpathArtist = new XPath("//a[@n='" + str + "']");
>
> I read somewhere that replacing ' with "'" or " with '"'.
>
> Is this the best way to do this?
> Is there support built into jaxen to clean up string prior to being used
in
> XPath?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Jason Long
> JML Internet Enterprises - www.jmlie.com
> BS Physics, MS Chemical Engineering
>
>
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