Re: XPath Query Exressions and Quote Characters

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C Drozdowski wrote:
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> $query = '//book/chapter' . '[@xml:id="' . $id . '"]';

First of all check the XPath documentation:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#path-abbrev

AFAIK your expression above is the way to build this query.  Give us a
link to the XML doc if you want us to take a look at that specific doc.
 Also make sure you referenced the correct DTD.  And (just to be sure)
try to validate you document against the DTD.

>
> Given this expression, if $id contains one or more single quotes, an
> error is thrown.
>
> $query = "//book/chapter[@xml:id='$id']";
>
> I need to be able to build an exression that contains either double or
> single quotes in the search regarding of how I programatically build the
> expression.
>

A couple of things that may be in play here...

- First of all I recall there was a specific bug with xml:id, although I
can't recall off the top of my head what it was...
- Secondly the XPath querying interface in PHP will only return simple
data at this point.  In fact, I think it will only return strings.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#attribute-nodes

But if your ID is simple data (integer / string), I can't imagine it
would be a problem for XPath to return it.

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