Theoretically, you should be able to just pass the parameter as a string;
no escaping should be required on input.
However, when the data is output it will pass though a serializer, and at
that time may have to be escaped to fit the code page or (if outputting to
XML or HTML) to fit constraints on what characters may appear where.
If that is what you're seeing, it's correct operation. If that isn't what
you're seeing, please provide a more specific illustration of what you're
doing, what you expect to happen, and what's happening instead, so we can
determine whether there is a real problem or not.
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Joe Kesselman, IBM Next-Generation Web Technologies: XML, XSL and more.
"The world changed profoundly and unpredictably the day Tim Berners Lee
got bitten by a radioactive spider." -- Rafe Culpin, in r.m.filk
