how to xpath if query string has embedded quotes

[dima]

I'm using msxml3

xml looks like this: <a desc="&quot;B&quot;" />

how to query it in xpath? here's what i tried:
a[@desc="\"B\""] -- This works under XSL Patterns, but not under Xpath
(using msxml 3)

a[@desc=' "B" '] --this will work, but what if description has single
quotes too? -then it won't work.

in short, i'm stuck. can anybody help?

thanks.
dmitry.

 

[Martin Honnen]

I'm using msxml3

xml looks like this: <a desc="&quot;B&quot;" />

how to query it in xpath? here's what i tried:
a[@desc="\"B\""] -- This works under XSL Patterns, but not under Xpath
(using msxml 3)

a[@desc=' "B" '] --this will work, but what if description has single
quotes too? -then it won't work.

Use it as long as you don't have quotes of the same type nested.
Otherwise with XPath 1.0 all you can do is to use the concat function
the whole string from pieces with the quotes you need.
I don't know whether XPath 2.0 makes that any easier.