Escaping Characters that cause issues in XML

[Allan]

Hi Anyone,
This question must have been asked before on this forum, but I can't find it.
Is there a function either in the STD or out there somewhere that escapes all those characters that are used as structure identifiers in XML?
e.g.

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<   &    >   '     "
&lt;&amp;&gt;&apos;&quot;


So given a a string

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would return

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Yours
Allan

[rtaylor]

Allen,

Have you tried the XMLENCODE() function?

HTH,

Richard

[Allan]

Ah Richard,

Works a treat!

That's a new built-in function to me.

Will teach me to read the released version of the ECL ref manual!

Yours

Allan

[rtaylor]

Allan,

Yes, I think it is fairly new -- been in the language now about 10+ years

Richard

[Allan]

ouch!