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 letterbox@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