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Sowmiya
Sowmiya

Reputation: 313

XPath Expression -fails in Chrome But works in IE,FF

I am having an XML like this: 

<root>
 <parent1>
   <parent2>
     <child label="single'quote"/>
     <child label="double&quot;quote"/>
   </parent2>
   <parent3/>
   <parent4>
     <child label = "single'quote"/>
   </parent4>
 </parent1>
</root>

My aim is to select the child node with a particular label,say single'quote

I can use the XPath Expression, 

         //child[@label='single'quote']

which will obviously throw error because of the special character ' in the value.

I came up with a solution to use the logic:

set an attribute dummy to the parent node with the value of the label, and compare the two attributes. [Added dummy="single'quote" to parent1 node.]

So, We can read the child nodes with the label as "single'quote" using: 

 //child[@label=//parent1/@dummy]

Though it works perfectly fine in IE and Firefox9, it fails in Chrome21.

Is there any flaw with the logic? How can I correct the expression for Chrome?

Thanks a lot.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 709

Answers (1)

Dimitre Novatchev
Dimitre Novatchev

Reputation: 243599

Use:

/*/parent1/parent2/*[@label="single'quote"]

Here is a screen-shot of the evaluation performed with the XPath Visualizer:

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For the second question use:

/*/parent1/parent2/*[@label='double"quote']

Here is a screen-shot from the XPath Visualizer:

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Upvotes: 1

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