girish wrote:

> In my XML document, some node attributes data contains both single quote
> and double quote characters, such as
> 
> <input msg="Hello "World", What's up"/>.
> 
> The double quotes are in form of escape sequence in the XML document. I
> am not able to locate such elements using an XPath expression. I tried
> the following:
> 
> //*[@msg="Hello "World", What's up"]
> Failes with string error at double quote before World
> 
> //*[@msg='Hello "World", What's up']
> Failes with string error at single quote after What
> 
> //*[@msg="Hello "World", What's up"]
> I used the escpase sequence for double quote in my xpath which you are
> seeing as acutal double quote in this post.
> No Error but does not return any node.
> 
> //*[@msg="Hello "World", What's up"]
> I used the escpase sequence for both double quotes and single quotes in
> my xpath which you are seeing as acutal double quote and single quotesin
> this post
> No Error but does not return any node
> 
> I tried both MSXML 3.0 and MSXML 4.
> Any Ideas??

&quot; is your friend.

///Peter
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"The cat in the box is both a wave and a particle"
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