#🔒 Sanitizing xpath string

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sour pagoda
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I'm running into trouble with using xpath to find elements/nodes, particularly due to a sanitization problem.

An element I am trying to manually locate for this problem:

<h2>
<span class="mw-headline" id="030:_&quot;Harpie's_Pet_Dragon&quot;">030: "Harpie's Pet Dragon"</span>
</h2>

I'm trying to do this a couple different ways:

xpath("//span[@id='030:_Harpie\'s_Pet_Dragon']")
xpath("//span[@id=\"030:_\"Harpie's_Pet_Dragon\"\"]")

They all return:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
    x.xpath("//span[@id=\"030:_\"Harpie's_Pet_Dragon\"\"]")
  File "src/lxml/etree.pyx", line 1623, in lxml.etree._Element.xpath
  File "src/lxml/xpath.pxi", line 290, in lxml.etree.XPathElementEvaluator.__call__
  File "src/lxml/xpath.pxi", line 210, in lxml.etree._XPathEvaluatorBase._handle_result
lxml.etree.XPathEvalError: Invalid predicate
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