selenium - Junit in Eclipse can not deal with a LinkText apostrophe -

a testcase runs in selenium ide when exported webdriver , executed in eclipse junit script can not find linktext element apostrophe in name.

i escaped apostrophe still junit can not find it.

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i exported selenuim testcase did not contain apostrophes , able run webdriver junit test in eclipse without issues.

i continue using testcases without apostrophes great if figure out how deal special characters.

sincerely,

rick doucette

 import java.util.regex.pattern;     import java.util.concurrent.timeunit;     import org.junit.*;     import static org.junit.assert.*;     import static org.hamcrest.corematchers.*;     import org.openqa.selenium.*;     import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.firefoxdriver;     import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.select;      public class firstselidedemo {       private webdriver driver;       private string baseurl;       private boolean acceptnextalert = true;       private stringbuffer verificationerrors = new stringbuffer();        @before       public void setup() throws exception {         driver = new firefoxdriver();         baseurl = "http://www.soastastore.com/";         driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlywait(30, timeunit.seconds);   }        @test       public void testfirstselidedemo() throws exception {         driver.get(baseurl + "/");         driver.findelement(by.linktext("store")).click();         driver.findelement(by.linktext("tron: legacy")).click();         driver.findelement(by.id("product_155_submit_button")).click();         new select(driver.findelement(by.name("product_rating"))).selectbyvisibletext("2");         driver.findelement(by.id("s")).clear();         driver.findelement(by.id("s")).sendkeys("firth");         driver.findelement(by.id("searchsubmit")).click();         *****driver.findelement(by.linktext("the king\'s speech")).click();*****         driver.findelement(by.name("product_rating")).click();         new select(driver.findelement(by.name("product_rating"))).selectbyvisibletext("4");         driver.findelement(by.cssselector("form.wpsc_product_rating > input[type=\"submit  \"]")).click();         driver.findelement(by.id("product_160_submit_button")).click();         new select(driver.findelement(by.name("product_rating"))).selectbyvisibletext("4");         driver.findelement(by.cssselector("form.wpsc_product_rating > input[type=\"submit\"]")).click();         driver.findelement(by.id("product_160_submit_button")).click();         driver.findelement(by.linktext("checkout")).click();         driver.findelement(by.cssselector("form.adjustform.remove > input[name=\"submit\"]")).click();         driver.findelement(by.cssselector("span > input[name=\"submit\"]")).click();         // warning: asserttextpresent may require manual changes         asserttrue(driver.findelement(by.cssselector("body")).gettext().matches("^[\\s\\s]*error: please enter username\\.[\\s\\s]*$"));   }    @after       public void teardown() throws exception {         driver.quit();         string verificationerrorstring = verificationerrors.tostring();         if (!"".equals(verificationerrorstring)) {         fail(verificationerrorstring);     }   } 

you don't need escape apostrophe in java source code, can lose \. generated html valid (it should have ' in source, if it's in attribute)? perhaps it's not ' (code u+0027) else u+2019 (http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2019/index.htm)?