Merge pull request #99476 from ecfan/patch-2

Remove unnecessary backslashes for quotation marks

Author: PRMerger20

articles/logic-apps/workflow-definition-language-functions-reference.md

@@ -4838,10 +4838,7 @@ And returns this result XML:
 
 ### xpath
 
-Check XML for nodes or values that match an XPath (XML Path Language) expression,
-and return the matching nodes or values. An XPath expression, or just "XPath",
-helps you navigate an XML document structure so that you can select nodes
-or compute values in the XML content.
+Check XML for nodes or values that match an XPath (XML Path Language) expression, and return the matching nodes or values. An XPath expression, or just "XPath", helps you navigate an XML document structure so that you can select nodes or compute values in the XML content.
 
 ```
 xpath('<xml>', '<xpath>')
@@ -4862,8 +4859,7 @@ xpath('<xml>', '<xpath>')
 
 *Example 1*
 
-This example finds nodes that match the `<name></name>` node
-in the specified arguments, and returns an array with those node values:
+This example finds nodes that match the `<name></name>` node in the specified arguments, and returns an array with those node values:
 
 `xpath(xml(parameters('items')), '/produce/item/name')`
 
@@ -4873,8 +4869,7 @@ Here are the arguments:
 
   `"<?xml version="1.0"?> <produce> <item> <name>Gala</name> <type>apple</type> <count>20</count> </item> <item> <name>Honeycrisp</name> <type>apple</type> <count>10</count> </item> </produce>"`
 
-  The example uses the [parameters()](#parameters) function to get
-  the XML string from the "items" argument, but must also convert
+  The example uses the [parameters()](#parameters) function to get the XML string from the "items" argument, but must also convert
   the string to XML format by using the [xml()](#xml) function.
 
 * This XPath expression, which is passed as a string:
@@ -4887,27 +4882,36 @@ Here is the result array with the nodes that match `<name></name`:
 
 *Example 2*
 
-Following on Example 1, this example finds nodes that match the
-`<count></count>` node and adds those node values with the `sum()` function:
+Following on Example 1, this example finds nodes that match the `<count></count>` node and adds those node values with the `sum()` function:
 
 `xpath(xml(parameters('items')), 'sum(/produce/item/count)')`
 
 And returns this result: `30`
 
 *Example 3*
 
-For this example, both expressions find nodes that match the
-`<location></location>` node, in the specified arguments,
-which include XML with a namespace. The expressions use the backslash
-character (\\) as an escape character for the double quotation mark (").
+For this example, both expressions find nodes that match the `<location></location>` node, in the specified arguments, which include XML with a namespace. 
+
+> [!NOTE]
+>
+> If you're working in code view, escape the double quotation mark (") by using the backslash character (\\). 
+> For example, you need to use escape characters when you serialize an expression as a JSON string. 
+> However, if you're working in the Logic App Designer or expression editor, you don't need to escape the 
+> double quotation mark because the backslash character is added automatically to the underlying definition, for example:
+> 
+> * Code view: `xpath(xml(body('Http')), '/*[name()=\"file\"]/*[name()=\"location\"]')`
+>
+> * Expression editor: `xpath(xml(body('Http')), '/*[name()="file"]/*[name()="location"]')`
+> 
+> The following examples apply to expressions that you enter in the expression editor.
 
 * *Expression 1*
 
-  `xpath(xml(body('Http')), '/*[name()=\"file\"]/*[name()=\"location\"]')`
+  `xpath(xml(body('Http')), '/*[name()="file"]/*[name()="location"]')`
 
 * *Expression 2*
 
-  `xpath(xml(body('Http')), '/*[local-name()=\"file\" and namespace-uri()=\"http://contoso.com\"]/*[local-name()=\"location\"]')`
+  `xpath(xml(body('Http')), '/*[local-name()="file" and namespace-uri()="http://contoso.com"]/*[local-name()="location"]')`
 
 Here are the arguments:
 
@@ -4919,9 +4923,9 @@ Here are the arguments:
 
 * Either XPath expression here:
 
-  * `/*[name()=\"file\"]/*[name()=\"location\"]`
+  * `/*[name()="file"]/*[name()="location"]`
 
-  * `/*[local-name()=\"file\" and namespace-uri()=\"http://contoso.com\"]/*[local-name()=\"location\"]`
+  * `/*[local-name()="file" and namespace-uri()="http://contoso.com"]/*[local-name()="location"]`
 
 Here is the result node that matches the `<location></location>` node:
 
@@ -4931,10 +4935,9 @@ Here is the result node that matches the `<location></location>` node:
 
 *Example 4*
 
-Following on Example 3, this example finds the value in the
-`<location></location>` node:
+Following on Example 3, this example finds the value in the `<location></location>` node:
 
-`xpath(xml(body('Http')), 'string(/*[name()=\"file\"]/*[name()=\"location\"])')`
+`xpath(xml(body('Http')), 'string(/*[name()="file"]/*[name()="location"])')`
 
 And returns this result: `"Paris"`