JSON.search is failing when a string contains double quotes...

[updiversity]

Hi,

I tried to use this library to perform some extraction of nodes in my JSON array. However, the function JSON.search is crashing when it is trying to evaluate this line

JSON.search(x,"//*[title = 'this is "NOT" me']);

I tried using escape, double escape but it continue to fail. Is it a bug or a problem with my expression ?

Thks

[hbi99]

Hello,
No bug...your XPath expression needed a little adjustment. Here is how it should be;

"//*[title='this is "NOT" me']"

Check out this fiddle (with simple & fast JSON structure - it just do the job for this example):
http://jsfiddle.net/YLBFa/

Cheers

[updiversity]

Thanks for the reply. I found the solution right after my post. Sorry for the noise.

[hbi99]

No worries :)
Using the XPath Evaluator tool I've wrote, will help finding the right XPath expression:
http://defiantjs.com/#xpath_evaluator

You can modify the search structure and it indicates hits live when writing your expression.