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Posted to xindice-users@xml.apache.org by Martin Polley <ma...@shaar-hagolan.co.il> on 2005/04/19 08:25:37 UTC
Apostrophe in XUpdate select string
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 ' (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't", but submitting this query results in the same error.
Any ideas?
TIA,
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Re: Apostrophe in XUpdate select string
Posted by Martin Polley <ma...@shaar-hagolan.co.il>.
Hi Yan,
Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't help. I just get a different
error now:
2005-04-20 21:55:27,211 [http-8080-Processor21] INFO
org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase - Recoverable exception
caught when processing request
2005-04-20 21:55:27,251 [http-8080-Processor21] WARN
org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase - Recoverable exception
caught but MethodRetryHandler.retryMethod() returned false, rethrowing
exception
Thanks anyway!
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Yan Langlois wrote:
> 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 ' (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't", but submitting this query results in the same error.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> TIA,
>
>
>
>
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Re: Apostrophe in XUpdate select string
Posted by Yan Langlois <ya...@eseo.fr>.
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 ' (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't", but submitting this query results in the same error.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> TIA,