Re: Apostrophe in XUpdate select string

I am not sure it could help but did you try this character "\" as an 
escape character ?
For example: 'Don't try this at home' would be replace by 'Don\'t try 
this at home'

Yan.


Martin Polley wrote:

> I have a JSP page that takes a request and constructs an XUpdate query 
> from it. The problem is that the selector string can include 
> apostrophes. When such a string is incorporated into the XUpdate 
> expression it causes an error (misquoted literal... expected single 
> quote!).
>
> The offending XUpdate query looks something like this:
>
> <xu:modifications version="1.0" 
> xmlns:xu="http://www.xmldb.org/xupdate"><xu:update 
> select="//*[@name='Don't try this at 
> home']/@description">Test</xu:update></xu:modifications>
>
> No surprise that it doesn't work...
>
> How can I get around this?
>
> I have tried replacing the apostrophe with &apos; (by using the 
> replaceAll() function), but the result is exactly the same. In the 
> XUpdate query (which the page writes to the log), it appears as 
> "Don&apos;t", but submitting this query results in the same error.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> TIA,