Julian Foad wrote: > I searched on the web and didn't find a really really simple way to > escape a set of characters. I think something like > > for c in chars_to_remove: > data = data.replace(c, '%%%0x' % ord(c)) > > would do it. >
Please read what I wrote earlier. Second, this is URL escaping, not XML quoting. But first, there is no way to represent such control chars in XML. Only CR and LF are valid according the the XML spec. Others are not; and you can't use character references, e.g.,  to represent ESC. That's not valid XML. -- Brane
