Hi Thomas, This problem is a general one when working with quotes; see:
'It is called "St. John's College"!' One solution is to go with the XQuery 3.1 string constructor [1] ``[It is called "St. John's College"!]`` Cheers, Christian [1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/XQuery_3.1#String_Constructor On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Thomas Daly <letter...@daladi.com> wrote: > Regarding the JSON module json::parse function, how do you cope with single > quotes within the JSON data? > > > > I have tried escaping them with a backslash, but to no avail. In this > example I think it’s the single quote in “St. John’s College” that is > causing the problem: > > > > XQUERY let $database := 'lk' > > let $options := map { 'format': 'direct', 'escape': > 'yes' } > > let $j := > json:parse('{"roles":["poet","cleric"],"institutions":["St John's > College","Cambridge > University"],"characterId":"595051204300","homes":["Cheapside","London","Dean > Prior","Devon"],"image":"robert_herrick.jpg","DOB":"1591-08-24","attributes":["People > educated at Merchant Taylors' School","Northwood","Alumni of St John's > College","Cambridge","Alumni of Trinity Hall","Cambridge","English > poets","People from the City of London","People educated at Westminster > School","London","English male > poets"],"DOD":"1674-10-08","nationality":"British","givenName":"Robert","familyName":"Herrick"}', > $options) > > return db:add($database, $j, > 'characters/c_595051204300_Robert_Herrick.xml') > > > > Stopped at ., 3/78: > > [XPST0003] Expecting closing bracket: json:parse. at > /usr/local/lib/basex-api/src/main/perl/BaseXClient.pm line 58. > > > > Many thanks, > > Thomas > >
