php xpath dealing with apostrophe / single quote in searched text

Question

In my PHP script, I\'m using XPATH to search nodes for text. Everything works swimmingly -except - when I search for a word with an apostrophe.

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Answer 1

(which I'm forced to use since this is PHP)

perhaps http://basex.org/api might be worth a look/try. It allows you to use XQuery/XPath and communicates either via REST or sockets. Apart from that I'd recommend salathes solutions.