hihi all,

how can i preserve the ' and " entities?

of the five basic entities (< > & ' &quot), why does
' and " get resolved to ' and " respectively even when the
other ones are not resolved (i.e. when i set the XML output encoding
to "us-ascii").

my use case is i may need to wrap the entire XML by quotes or
apostrophes as a string, so any 'inner' quotes and apostrophes need to
be encoded/escaped.

thanks in advance!
-v