<chris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have an XML file which have nodes that contain filepaths,
>e.g.<path>c:\SomeDirectory\SomeFile.txt</path>
>
>I'm using an XmlDocument and XPath query to try and find a node
>XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
>doc.LoadXml(File.ReadAllText(xmlFilePath));
>
>string somePath = @"c:\SomeDirectory\SomeFile.txt";
>string query = "node1/node2[Path='" + somePath + "']";
>XmlNodeList nodes = doc.SelectNodes(query);
>
>The problem is, query becomes
>"node1/node2[Path='c:\\SomeDirectory\\SomeFile.txt']" (Note the double quotes
>due to the escaping of the backslashes). Obviously this doesn't match the XML
>node in question. How do I work around this? (I don't want to use double
>backslashes in the XML file.)

chris wrote:
> I have an XML file which have nodes that contain filepaths,
> e.g.<path>c:\SomeDirectory\SomeFile.txt</path>
>
> I'm using an XmlDocument and XPath query to try and find a node
> XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
> doc.LoadXml(File.ReadAllText(xmlFilePath));
>
> string somePath = @"c:\SomeDirectory\SomeFile.txt";
> string query = "node1/node2[Path='" + somePath + "']";
> XmlNodeList nodes = doc.SelectNodes(query);
>
> The problem is, query becomes
> "node1/node2[Path='c:\\SomeDirectory\\SomeFile.txt']" (Note the double quotes
> due to the escaping of the backslashes). Obviously this doesn't match the XML
> node in question. How do I work around this? (I don't want to use double