XPath find by text containing quotes

Question

Consider a text containing both single and double quotes. I am storing it in a JS literal string

const sampleText = `Uses the "crow's foot" notation rather than classic ER notation to depict a relationship`

I need to find the div element which contains this text. I am using document.evaluate function

const xpath = `//div[text()="${sampleText}"]`
document
    .evaluate(xpath, document, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null)
    .iterateNext();

But the function call throws not a valid XPath. Tried adding escaped blackslash \\ before double quotes " in sampleText but no luck. Failed attempt:

const sampleText = `Uses the \\"crow's foot\\" notation rather than classic ER notation to depict a relationship`

Error:

Failed to execute 'evaluate' on 'Document': The string '//div/text()="Uses the \"crow's foot\" notation rather than classic ER notation to depict a relationship"' is not a valid XPath expression.

Also other answers couldn't help as my string contains both double and single quotes and need code in JS

Answer 1

Found a solution. Use the concat function and separate the quotes. Wrote a simple function to take a string and out a literal string to be used in concat(outString)

const xConcatString = (sampleText) => {
  const splitText = sampleText.split('"');
  const xText = [];
  splitText.forEach((ele) => {
    xText.push(`"${ele}"`);
    xText.push(`'"'`);
  });
  xText.pop();
  return xText.join(",");
};

Explanation: xpath doesn't support escaping characters , thus the only option is to use double quotes when string contains single quotes and vice versa. But we can use the concat operator to split the string by any 1 type of quote you decide and wrap it in another. In above function I am splitting by single quote.

Also . works better than text() when finding xpath element via text inside it. Thus from sample in the question,

const sampleText = `Uses the "crow's foot" notation rather than classic ER notation to depict a relationship`

const xpath = `//div[.=concat(${xConcatString(sampleText)})]`
document
    .evaluate(xpath, document, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null)
    .iterateNext();

Tip: The quotes on output string from xConcatString will get confusing but its a comma separated list of string and each string element is enclosed in double quotes