David Thielen wrote:

> I have the following xml:
>
> <root>
> <name>abc "123" xyz</name>
> </root>
>
> When I get an XPathNavigator to root and then call navigator.Evaluate("name
> = \"abc \\\"123\\\" xyz"), I get an XPathException. I also tried \\" and " -
> all throw an exception.

David Thielen wrote:

> But isn't \" an official part of xpath?

"Martin Honnen" wrote:

>
>
> David Thielen wrote:
>
> > I have the following xml:
> >
> > <root>
> > <name>abc "123" xyz</name>
> > </root>
> >
> > When I get an XPathNavigator to root and then call navigator.Evaluate("name
> > = \"abc \\\"123\\\" xyz"), I get an XPathException. I also tried \\" and " -
> > all throw an exception.
>
> XPath allows both ' and " as the delimiters to string literals so in C#
> a string literal like
> "name = 'abc \"123\" xyz'"
> should do, the outer " delimits the C#/.NET string, the ' delimits the
> XPath string and \" is necessary to escape the double quote in the C#
> string literal.
>
> But there can be ugly situations with both ' and " used where you need
> to split strings and use concat to build your XPath expression in a
> syntactically correct way.
>
>
> --
>
> Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
> http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/