Hello, Yes, I did escape all of them but got the same error.
I have tried Christian's solution which solves the problem, and good to know about ' too. Many thanks, Thomas -----Original Message----- From: basex-talk-boun...@mailman.uni-konstanz.de [mailto:basex-talk-boun...@mailman.uni-konstanz.de] On Behalf Of Sebastian Albert Sent: 10 August 2017 13:47 To: basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de Subject: Re: [basex-talk] Single quotes with json::parse Just to make sure: Have you also escaped Merchant Taylors' School at the same time? I've successfully tried ' to escape the apostrophe. On 10.08.2017 14:41, Thomas Daly 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","attri > butes":["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 > > >
