Comments on: The Perils of XPath Expressions (Specifically, Escaping Quotes)

By: XML Search Issue - Bizzteams

XML Search Issue - Bizzteams — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:51:02 +0000

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By: Stephen Gross

Stephen Gross — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:50:06 +0000

Thanks! Works like a charm!

By: kushal

kushal — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:24:40 +0000

Hey Iain, Glad it was useful for you
Kushal

By: Iain Dooley

Iain Dooley — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 04:06:15 +0000

Great write up, thanks so much for posting. I’ve added a solution in PHP to my blog:

http://workingsoftware.com.au/page/Escaping_single_and_double_quotes_in_XPath_queries_in_PHP

By: Tarun

Tarun — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 04:52:35 +0000

Can’t stop but being thankful to u..

By: Bob Deng

Bob Deng — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:58:02 +0000

This helps a lot for me, Thanks

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:05:45 +0000

Thanks for the comprehensive article on a tricky subject – it gave me a great starting point.

I’ve adapted your GenerateConcatForXPath function as its using concat when not necessary (e.g. string contains either ” or ‘ but not both) and generates strings with more arguments to concat than is needed.

See this for more details

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/642125/encoding-xpath-expressions-with-both-single-and-double-quotes

By: Igs

Igs — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:28:44 +0000

Awesome!!! I spent a few hours pulling my hair out trying to figure how to do this in .NET. Very clearly explained with several options that I thought of myself, and neat code.

Thanks

By: kushal

kushal — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:23:48 +0000

Hi Andre,
I’m glad you found it useful.
Kushal

By: andre

andre — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:54:44 +0000

again, thank you for writing this nice and clear summary of this extremely confusing issue …
this page needs to show up at the very top of google’s results for “xpath escaping quotes”, so that developers hitting this problem in the future don’t waste so much time on it (and can instead focus on stuff like an innovative re-invention of the shoot’em up genre ).