How to escape single quotes

I've scoured google, but apparently none of the suggestions actually work.
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I have the following. type of XPATH query
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"SomeNode[SomeAttribute = 'abc's search'"
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Now, I've tried doing this:
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"SomeNode[SomeAttribute = 'abc@apos;s search'"

Marina Levit [MVP] wrote:>
Assuming you actually meant '...
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<xsl:variable name="apos">
<xsl:text>'</xsl:text>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:if test="SomeNode[SomeAttribute = concat('abc',$apos,'s search')]">
...
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///Peter
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XML FAQ: http://xml.silmaril.ie/

I've scoured google, but apparently none of the suggestions actually work.
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I have the following. type of XPATH query
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"SomeNode[SomeAttribute = 'abc's search'"
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Now, I've tried doing this:
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"SomeNode[SomeAttribute = 'abc@apos;s search'"
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and I've tried
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"SomeNode[SomeAttribute = 'abc@quot;s search'"
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And neither one of these gives me a result.
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Note, because of the structure and the way this XPATH is put together, I
would prefer to not have to use double quotes as the delimiters for the
search string, I'd like to keep it single quotes.
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How to make this query find my node?

Marina Levit [MVP] wrote:>
In what context are you using the XPath? If that is an XSLT stylesheet
then using entity references like &apos; or &quot; might help but if you
have .NET code (e.g. C# or VB.NET) then using those XML entity references
is not possible.
As for that escape problem, it is ugly, XPath 1.0 itself does not have any
escape mechanism so you need to split strings e.g. C# string literal to be
passed to SelectSingleNode looks like
@"SomeNode[@SomeAttribute = concat('abc', ""'"", 's search')]"
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See also Oleg's blog
<http://www.tkachenko.com/blog/archives/000627.htmlrespectively the
XPathCache API the MVP XML project provides.
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Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

Using the jscript XML object model this all works without a problem. And
yet, .NET can't implement an XML DOM that works half way decent.

Marina Levit [MVP] wrote:
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I am not sure why you think it is a .NET issue. What exactly are you doing
with JScript and MSXML that you can't do with .NET and C# (or VB.NET)?
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Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

But I have an XPATH expression and I am searching for a node. How does what
you wrote fit into that?

"Peter Flynn" <peter.nosp@m.silmaril.iewrote in message
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Marina Levit [MVP] wrote:>
What I wrote. I just copied your sample XPath expression.
I'm not sure I understand what the difficulty is.
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///Peter
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XML FAQ: http://xml.silmaril.ie/
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