If the string with the & is outside of marklogic, your examples probably do not do what you think they are doing because they are running from within XQuery which itself is doing funny things with &.
Could you back up a step and explain how the data is arriving at the system ? Is it XML to start with ? Is it valid XML ? If it is not valid xml to start with it needs to be fixed prior to getting into marklogic (atleast prior to getting in an XML node - you could import it as text). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Lee Lead Engineer MarkLogic Corporation [email protected] Phone: +1 812-482-5224 Cell: +1 812-630-7622 www.marklogic.com<http://www.marklogic.com/> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Scott Gurney Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 5:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MarkLogic Dev General] xdmp:unquote and ampersand I have a need to convert a string that has an ampersand into xml and I can't get it to work. I have tried encoding the ampersand, but none of them seem to work. The string is coming from a system external to MarkLogic and it can be changed (if that will help). xquery version "1.0-ml"; declare namespace html = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";; (:let $testString1 := "<root>foo & bar</root>":) let $testString2 := "<root>foo & bar</root>" let $testString3 := "<root>foo & bar</root>" let $testString4 := "<root>foo %26 bar</root>" let $testString5 := "<root>foo & bar</root>" let $testString6 := "<root>foo & bar</root>" let $testString7 := "<root>foo %26 bar</root>" return xdmp:unquote($testString5) Maybe there is another way to convert the string into xml? I'm using MarkLogic 5.0-3.3 Thanks David
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