In normal XQuery you don't need to do this. Are you sure you do? Maybe you just need:
<foo>{ $value }</foo> The value will be properly escaped on output. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 29, 2017, at 13:01, Steven Anderson <sander...@salesforce.com<mailto:sander...@salesforce.com>> wrote: I could do that, but I just figured there'd be a xquery function do to it for all three special XML characters. It's easy enough to write one, but I just assumed that someone else would have needed it. On Jul 28, 2017, at 9:12 PM, Indrajeet Verma <indrajeet.ve...@gmail.com<mailto:indrajeet.ve...@gmail.com>> wrote: Steve - Did you try using fn:replace? e.g. fn:replace(fn:replace($title, "<", "&lt;"), ">", "&gt;") On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 5:32 AM, Steve Anderson <steve.ander...@gmail.com<mailto:steve.ander...@gmail.com>> wrote: I have a string like this: A title for <placeholder> the product and I'd like to replace it with A title for <placeholder> the product Basically, I want to make the a valid XML text node, fixing greater than, less than, and ampersands. I thought I could make xdmp:quote do that, but, perhaps because it's Friday afternoon, I can't find the right options to make it work. Is there any easy solution I can't find? Steve _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@developer.marklogic.com<mailto:General@developer.marklogic.com> Manage your subscription at: http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@developer.marklogic.com<mailto:General@developer.marklogic.com> Manage your subscription at: http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@developer.marklogic.com<mailto:General@developer.marklogic.com> Manage your subscription at: http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general
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