> Does it HAVE to be a CDATA node in order to safely include 
> double "quotes" in an XML file?  

Yes, to include any unescaped XML metacharacters, you must place them within
a CDATA block.

> Be nice if I could do the following, but it's obvious why it breaks:
> 
> <item title="This is my "String" with quotes"/> 
> 
> I'm using iso-8859-1 encoding in the XML, but I think UTF 
> would be OK too.  I'm grabbing it with xfactorstudios Xpath.  
> I guess I could look for single quotes and swap that out for 
> double quotes, but that's not ideal.

Why not just escape the characters?

<item title="This is my &quot;String&quot; with quotes"/>

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