How to escape an '&' character between brackets in XPath??

[Ramon F Herrera]

I have an XPath expression as follows:

/root/table[@titledetail='Black & White']/detailed

but it is making my XPath programs yell at me.

TIA,

-Ramon

 

[Alain Ketterlin]

I have an XPath expression as follows:

/root/table[@titledetail='Black & White']/detailed

but it is making my XPath programs yell at me.

What's a "XPath program"? If you hide all the details, the best we can
do is use a crystal ball.

XPath doesn't place any restriction on the characters inside a string
literal. If your XPath expression is placed inside an attribute value in
an XML element of a XML document, then usual XML-escaping rules apply,
and & must be written as &

-- Alain.

 

[Martin Honnen]

I have an XPath expression as follows:

/root/table[@titledetail='Black & White']/detailed

but it is making my XPath programs yell at me.

With XPath that expression should be fine, with XQuery however you need
/root/table[@titledetail='Black & White']/detailed

 

[Ramon F Herrera]

I have an XPath expression as follows:

/root/table[@titledetail='Black & White']/detailed

but it is making my XPath programs yell at me.

What's an "XPath program"?

(1) The XQuilla library is an example.

(2) Stylus Professional is another.

Both reject the syntax in question.

-Ramon

 

[Ramon F Herrera]

I have an XPath expression as follows:

/root/table[@titledetail='Black & White']/detailed

but it is making my XPath programs yell at me.

With XPath that expression should be fine, with XQuery however you need
   /root/table[@titledetail='Black & White']/detailed

Thanks, Martin!

With the xqilla CLI, this one works:

xqilla -P -i test.xml q1

where this is the contents of the "q1" file:

/root/table[@titledetail='Black & White']/detailed

The "-P" option:

"-P : Parse in XPath 1.0 compatibility mode (default is XQuery mode)"

-Ramon