[lxml-dev] Patch for xpathgrep.py

[Pete Forman]

Thomas Schraitle <tom_schr at web.de> writes:

 > On Montag, 9. Juni 2008, Pete Forman wrote:
>> Thomas Schraitle <tom_schr at web.de> writes:
>>  > To spread the word about lxml and xpathgrep.py: I've wrote a small
>>  > article here:
>>  > http://lizards.opensuse.org/2008/06/09/query-your-xml-with-xpathgrep
>>  >py/
>>
>> Something has prettified away your apostrophes (with an e) in the
>> //chapter[not(@id)]/title example.
>
 > Strange. I can see it with the apostrophes in Firefox and
 > Konqueror. Maybe some font issue in your browser?

Those are typographically correct left and right single quotation
marks U+2018 and U+2019.  However the command line shell needs an
apostrophe U+0027.  Copy and paste from the browser to the command
line will not work.

I see single quotation marks in Opera, FF and IE, and viewing source:

  <p>Now this reduces the above output just to the wanted chapter
  titles. And I can extent my query just for all chapters that
  doesn&#8217;t have an id attribute:</p>
  <p><code>$ <strong>xpathgrep.py</strong>
  &#8216;//chapter[not(@id)]/title&#8217; db.xml</code></p>
  <p>(You need the apostroph because of the shell.)

The listing of File db.xml is similarly affected.
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