Single and Double quotes issue in Xpath

[Sakthivel P]

Hi Experts,

I have question label as (I have question and if you answer as 'yes' you will proceed else will "discontinue" from screen).

How can i take Xpath for this label since it has both single and double quotes in same question.

Xpath expression: //span[text()="I have question and if you answer as 'yes' you will proceed else will "discontinue" from the screen"]

Note: I have to use full question label so i cant use @contains in Xpath.

Please help me out to fix this issue.

Thanks,
Sakthivel P

[Markus Bernhardt]

Hi Sakthivel,

I cant check at the moment, but you try to escape " with \" or "

One of the two should work. Or?

markus

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[Markus Bernhardt]

I buy a "could"...

[Kevin O.]

Unfortunately, there is no escape character in XPath, so you have to use the concat function.

Selenium2Library has a function to handle this, which I used to get a XPath. Try:

//span[text()=concat('I have question and if you answer as ', "'", 'yes', "'", ' you will proceed else will "discontinue" from screen')]

${utils}= Evaluate Selenium2Library.utils Selenium2Library

${escaped xpath}= Call Method ${utils} escape_xpath_value I have question and if you answer as 'yes' you will proceed else will "discontinue" from screen

Kevin

[Markus Bernhardt]

Ups. Thanks for the correct answer.

Sorry for the noise.