[basex-talk] cvs:serialize not converting special characters

Hi,

When serializing XML to CSV, special characters (e.g., &) are not converted to their textual representations (e.g., ‘&’).

For example, the code below outputs

conditionid nctid condition 1 NCT00130377 Cardiovascular System Diseases (& [Cardiac])

vs. the expected

conditionid nctid condition 1 NCT00130377 Cardiovascular System Diseases (& [Cardiac])

This seems like a bug. Am I missing an option? I did not see anything related in the documentation.

Thanks, Ron

let $options := map { 'lax': false(), 'quotes' : false(), 'separator' : 'tab', 'header' : true() }

return file:write('conditions.tsv',   csv:serialize(     <matches> {       for $article in db:open('CTGov')/clinical_study       where $article//nct_id = 'NCT00130377'       for $condition in $article/condition       count $c       return         <match>           <conditionid> { $c } </conditionid>,           <nctid> { normalize-space($article/id_info/nct_id/text()) } </nctid>,           <condition> { normalize-space($condition/text()) } </condition>         </match> }     </matches>,     $options)   )