Re: [xml] Escaping '/' in xpath

[Matt Sergeant <matt sergeant org>]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Daniel Veillard wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 03:36:38PM +0100, Wendsomde Yameogo wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to evaluate an Xpath expression which contains the '/'
> > character, which is also an operator in xpath. How to escape this
> > character or replace it with an entity reference? I couldn´t find
> > anything about it in the xpath spec. There is something about escaping
> > characters like '<' and other xml specific characters but nothing about
> > '/' which is an xpath operator.
> >
> > My expression looks like:
> >
> > /descendant-or-self::http://www.whatever.com:NodeName
> >
> > (trying to find all NodeName Nodes with namespace
> > "http//:www.whatever.com")
>
>   Use the following:
>     http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#function-namespace-uri
>
>  /descendant-or-self::*[function-namespace-uri() = 'http://www.whatever.com'
>                         and local-name() = 'NodeName']

I assume you mean:

/descendant-or-self::*[namespace-uri() = 'http://www.whatever.com'
                and local-name() = 'NodeName']

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