<blockquote>It's relatively interesting, yes, but you seemed to be trying to give a lesson on escaping characters but I think everyone here knows how to escape quotes.</blockquote> I appreciate that everyone knows how to escape. Clearly however, there is an issue... otherwise this discussion would be nonexistent. Did anyone try my string suggestion? I'm not sure if it'll work, and I haven't tried it. It was: FOR TESTING: hello there! i am "escaped" <pre>"//child::text()[contains(\"hello there! i am \\\"escaped\\\"\")]"</pre> EDIT: Appears that this does not work.... <p><blockquote>It's relatively interesting, yes, but you seemed to be trying to give a lesson on escaping characters but I think everyone here knows how to escape quotes.</blockquote></p> <p>I appreciate that everyone knows how to escape. Clearly however, there is an issue... otherwise this discussion would be nonexistent. Did anyone try my string suggestion? I'm not sure if it'll work, and I haven't tried it. It was:</p> <p>FOR TESTING:</p> <p>hello there! i am "escaped"</p> <p><pre>"//child::text()[contains(\"hello there! i am \\\"escaped\\\"\")]"</pre></p> <p>EDIT: Appears that this does not work....</p> 2008-12-23T03:47:00Z 2 Forum 85680 18247 2008-12-23T03:54:43Z 61251