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Asked: 2026-05-27T02:25:06+00:00

I’m writing an XPath expression in Java, and am trying to grab all elements

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I’m writing an XPath expression in Java, and am trying to grab all elements with a particular GUID. Basically, I’m doing:

(NodeList) xpath.evaluate("//object[guid=" + guid + "]", objectDoc, XPathConstants.NODESET);

with a GUID:

eb52a56c-2a16-4256-ab0c-523cb6d19a3f

XPath throws me an error:

eb52a56c-2a16-4256-ab0c-523cb6d19a3f could not be formatted to a number!

and I assume that this is because of the dashes. Am I wrong? If not, is there a way to escape them? I found mention of escaping characters in XPath via Google, but nobody mentioned dashes.

Thanks,
Cody

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  1. Editorial Team

    Quote it. “//object[guid='” + guid + “‘]”

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