Could you please give me an example of how to do I do this using jaxen? I have used this with XSL, but never from java code.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- James wrote: 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 ----- Original Message ----- 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Jaxen-interest mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jaxen-interest _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Jaxen-interest mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jaxen-interest