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> Actually using C style backslash escaping would be rejected by other > parsers, I believe. So that's probably a better long term > solution (and it's prettier too!). The string '\n' is perfectly legal in XPath 1.0 and means backslash followed by letter 'n'. In fact there are no reserved characters in XPath 1.0 strings and there is therefore no way of introducing an escape convention retrospectively, which is why I suggested using a different delimiter. In fact I think the best approach would be to use the only extension capability allowed by the XPath syntax, which is an extension function. You could allow the user to write: x:escape('He said, \qI won\at!\q') and interpret \q as double-quote and \a as single-quote. Mike Kay XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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