I have an expansion problem in natural tables. I need to have this:

\bTD\XMLDBcontinuepartrue\ignorespaces\XMLflush{revremark}\eTD

but \XMLflush{revremark} must be expanded. When I do that using
\expanded,

\expanded{\bTD\noexpand\XMLDBcontinuepartrue\ignorespaces\XMLflush{#1}}\eTD

I get errors when I have compound characters:

\XMLDBcontinuepartrue\ignorespaces 
  Kleine \dobuildtextaccent\char 127 A{}nderung

It should be 

\dobuildtextaccent{\char 127} A 

for it to be valid. Or it should be 

\buildtextaccent\textdiaeresis A

In other words, \XMLflush{#1} should be expanded, but not all the way
down. How do I get that?

This is my hack, but it is awful because it relies on an exact number
of expansions:

\expandafter\expandafter\expandafter\def
\expandafter\expandafter\expandafter\!!stringa
\expandafter\expandafter\expandafter{\csname XML:dat:#1\endcsname}
\@EA\bTD\@EA\XMLDBcontinuepartrue\@EA\ignorespaces\!!stringa\eTD}

Error log:

\XMLDBshowElementTD #1->\expanded {\bTD \noexpand \XMLDBcontinuepartrue \ignore
spaces \XMLflush {#1}}\eTD 
#1<-revremark

\expanded #1->\long \edef \@@expanded {\noexpand #1}\@@expanded 
#1<-\bTD \noexpand \XMLDBcontinuepartrue \ignorespaces \XMLflush {revremark}
{\long}
{\noexpand}
{\noexpand}

\XMLflush #1->\csname \@@XMLdata :#1\endcsname 
#1<-revremark
{\csname}

\@@XMLdata ->\@@XML dat

\@@XML ->XML:

\XML:dat:revremark ->Kleine �nderung

�->\Adiaeresis {}

\Adiaeresis ->\dohandlecharacter {Adiaeresis}

\dohandlecharacter #1->\csname \ifcsname \characterencoding #1\endcsname \chara
cterencoding \else \nocharacterencoding \fi #1\endcsname 
#1<-Adiaeresis
{\csname}
{\ifcsname}

\characterencoding ->@default@
{true}

\characterencoding ->@default@
{\else}

\@default@Adiaeresis ->\buildtextaccent \textdiaeresis A

\buildtextaccent ->\ifignoreaccent \expandafter \nobuildtextaccent \else \expan
dafter \dobuildtextaccent \fi 
{\iffalse}
{false}
{\expandafter}
{\fi}

\textdiaeresis ->\dohandlecharacter {textdiaeresis}

\dohandlecharacter #1->\csname \ifcsname \characterencoding #1\endcsname \chara
cterencoding \else \nocharacterencoding \fi #1\endcsname 
#1<-textdiaeresis
{\csname}
{\ifcsname}

\characterencoding ->@default@
{true}

\characterencoding ->@default@
{\else}

\@default@textdiaeresis ->\char 127 

\@@expanded ->\bTD \XMLDBcontinuepartrue \ignorespaces Kleine \dobuildtextaccen
t \char 127 A{}nderung

\bTD ->\dodoubleempty \parseTD 

... snip ...

\parseTD [#1][#2]#3\eTD ->\getparameters [\@@tbl ][\c!ny =\tblnr ,\c!nx =\tblnc
 ,nc=1,nr=1,#1]\doloop {\increment \currentcol \doifnottbltag \maximumrow \curr
entcol \exitloop }\let \row \maximumrow \let \col \currentcol \dorecurse {\tbln
y } {\let \col \currentcol \settblcol \row \col \tblnx \ifnum \tblnx >\maximumr
owspan \relax \let \maximumrowspan \tblnx \fi \dorecurse {\tblnx } {\settbltag 
\row \col \tblnone \increment \col }\increment \row }\decrement \col \ifnum \co
l >\maximumcol \relax \let \maximumcol \col \fi \settbltag \maximumrow \current
col \tblcell \settblcol \maximumrow \currentcol \tblnx \settblrow \maximumrow \
currentcol \tblny \edef \celltag {{\maximumrow }{\currentcol }}\@EA \settbltxt 
\@EA \maximumrow \@EA \currentcol \@EA {\@EA \handleTBLcell \celltag [#1]{#3}}
#1<-
#2<-
#3<-\XMLDBcontinuepartrue \ignorespaces Kleine \dobuildtextaccent \char 127 A{}
nderung

... snip ...

\dobuildtextaccent #1#2->{\let \char \normalaccent #1\let \char \normalchar #2}
#1<-\char 
#2<-1
{begin-group character {}
{\let}
{\accent}
! Missing number, treated as zero.
<to be read again> 
                   \let 
\dobuildtextaccent ... \char \normalaccent #1\let 
                                                  \char \normalchar #2}
<argument> ...es Kleine \dobuildtextaccent \char 1
                                                  27 A{}nderung


-- 
Simon Pepping
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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