[xquery-talk] Escaping { and } characters in xquery

Shannon Shiflett sss4r at virginia.edu
Thu Nov 18 09:25:00 PST 2004


David,

In XQuery you have the option of using character references (hexadecimal 
or decimal) or more simply escape curly braces by doubling them (e.g., 
{{ and }}).

Shannon

David Sinclair wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What is the correct way to escape '{' characters in xquery?  In other 
> words, if I want to make an element with { in the content,eg
> 
> <name>{here is some content}</name>
> 
> David Sinclair.
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