XPath and special characters

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Published on 2010-04-23T20:56:09Z Indexed on 2010/04/23 21:23 UTC
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I am having an issue with an XPath query I'm performing for a Sitecore CMS system.

This query works fine:

/root/content/Meta-Data/Tips/*

But when I try this:

/root/content/Meta-Data/Tips/*[@SomeAttribute='somekey']

I get an error which says "End of string expected at position 22" which is where the dash character is found. I was under the impression that the dash was not a special character in XML... am I doing something wrong here? Do I need to encode this in some way? Or is this a bug in the XPath parser? Any suggested workarounds?

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