Question

Pretty simple question – I have an attribute that I would like to have double quotes in. How do I escape them? I’ve tried

• \’
• ”
• \\’

And I’ve made the @xml variable both xml type and varchar(max) for all of them.

 declare @xml xml --(or varchar(max) tried both)   set @xml = '<transaction><item value='hi 'mom' lol'      ItemId='106'  ItemType='2'  instanceId='215923801'  dataSetId='1' /></transaction>'   declare @xh int  exec sp_xml_preparedocument @xh OUTPUT, @xml   insert into @commits --I declare the table, just removed it for brevity  select     x.*  from openxml(@xh,'/transaction/item')   WITH (     dataItemId int,      dataItemType int,     instanceId int,     dataSetId int,     value varchar(max)   ) x 

Answer 1

Wouldn’t that be " in xml? i.e.

'hi "mom" lol'  

**edit: ** tested; works fine:

declare @xml xml   set @xml = '<transaction><item value='hi &quot;mom&quot; lol'      ItemId='106'  ItemType='2'  instanceId='215923801'  dataSetId='1' /></transaction>'  select @xml.value('(//item/@value)[1]','varchar(50)')