Xquery, Saxon and special caracteres

[Martin Probst]

>> How prepare the xquery to accept this characters?
>
> Escape the ampersand as you would with XML:

I guess if this is actually user input, a better way is to use
external variables:

declare variable $searchstring as xs:string external;

prod/DET[nD=$searchstring]/ad/number

... and then pass in the value through the API or command line.

Regards,
Martin