How can I escape double quotes in XML attributes values

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From the following trials   lt tag attr      gt   lt tag attr   lt   CDATA     gt   gt   lt tag attr     gt    Only the last one works for an XML parser that I m using here  Is there an alternative

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You can use  amp quot

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A double quote character     can be escaped as  amp quot   but here s the rest of the story     Double quote character must be escaped in this context    In XML attributes delimited by double quotes    lt EscapeNeeded name  Pete  amp quot Maverick amp quot  Mitchell   gt     Double quote character need not be escaped in most contexts    In XML textual content    lt NoEscapeNeeded gt He said   Don t quote me   lt  NoEscapeNeeded gt   In XML attributes delimited by single quotes        lt NoEscapeNeeded name  Pete  Maverick  Mitchell   gt    Similarly      require no escaping if     are used for the attribute value delimiters    lt NoEscapeNeeded name  Pete  Maverick  Mitchell   gt     See also   Simplified XML Escaping

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The String conversion page on the Coder s Toolbox site is handy for encoding more than a small amount of HTML or XML code for inclusion as a value in an XML element

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From the XML specification      To allow attribute values to contain   both single and double quotes  the   apostrophe or single-quote character       may be represented as   amp apos      and the double-quote character     as     amp quot

[xml] How can I escape double quotes in XML attributes values?

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