Jan, character references should be printed as decimal (not as octal) numbers. Cheers, Jan On 03/16/2007 11:20 AM, Jan Flokstra wrote with possible deletions:

Update of /cvsroot/monetdb/pathfinder/runtime In directory sc8-pr-cvs7.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv28663/runtime

Modified Files: Tag: XQuery_0-16 serialize_dflt.mx Log Message: * Fix for Jens bug monetdb-Bugs-1681921 ] XQ: Character escaping is bogus

echo '""' | MapiClient -lx -o xml

Now results correctly in:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <XQueryResult></XQueryResult>

Index: serialize_dflt.mx =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/monetdb/pathfinder/runtime/serialize_dflt.mx,v retrieving revision 1.23.2.3 retrieving revision 1.23.2.4 diff -u -d -r1.23.2.3 -r1.23.2.4 --- serialize_dflt.mx 15 Feb 2007 01:46:12 -0000 1.23.2.3 +++ serialize_dflt.mx 16 Mar 2007 10:20:47 -0000 1.23.2.4 @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ start = end + 1;

if ( isspecial_ch == 1 ) { /* print octal */ - stream_printf(ctx->out,"\\%03o",(unsigned char)src[end]); + stream_printf(ctx->out,"&#%o;",(unsigned char)src[end]); } else { char *emit_val = dflt_ws->special_val[(int)isspecial_ch]; int emit_len = dflt_ws->special_len[(int)isspecial_ch];

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