### Eclipse Workspace Patch 1.0
#P jackrabbit-jcr-commons
Index: src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/util/Text.java
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--- src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/util/Text.java	(revision 705186)
+++ src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/util/Text.java	(working copy)
@@ -477,7 +477,28 @@
         }
         return buffer.toString();
     }
-
+    
+    /** Escapes all illegal XPath search characters of a string.
+    * <p>Example:<br>
+    * A search string like 'test?' will run into a ParseException
+    * documented in http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-1248
+    * 
+    * @param string the string to encode
+    * @return the escaped string    
+    */
+   public static String escapeIllegalXpathSearchChars(String s) {
+       StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
+       sb.append(s.substring(0, (s.length() - 1)));
+       char c = s.charAt(s.length() - 1);
+       // NOTE: keep this in sync with _ESCAPED_CHAR below!
+       if (c == '!' || c == '(' || c == ':' || c == '^' 
+           || c == '[' || c == ']' || c == '\"' || c == '{' 
+           || c == '}' || c == '?') {
+           sb.append('\\');
+       }
+       sb.append(c);
+       return sb.toString();
+   }
     /**
      * Unescapes previously escaped jcr chars.
      * <p/>