How to preserving XML tag string formats in variables?

[Bob Sneidar]

Is it important that return and cr are two different things, depending on the OS? I was told that return means cr/lf on a Mac system and maybe windows, while Linux/Unix systems interpret it as something different. CR is a single carriage return. Do I have this right? Does this matter to your particular application?

Bob

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On May 21, 2011, at 7:12 AM, Keith Clarke <keith.clarke at clarkeandclarke.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi folks,
> I'm experimenting with scripting the building of a POST message. So, I'm creating a set of lines that take the form "<opening_tag_string>" & tVariable & "</closing_tag_string>" and using a repeat loop to build each component of each lines into a variable tMessage. 
> 
> When I use 'add return & "opening–tag–string" & tVariable after tMessage' to create a partial XML node statement, I get what I would expect to see in the message box when I put tMessage. 
> 
> However, when I attempt to 'add return & "opening–tag–string" & tVariable & "closing_tag_string" after tMessage' to create the full statement, the opening and closing tag strings disappear and I'm left with just the list of tVariable in tMessage.
> 
> I guess there is some wrapping or encoding that I need to apply to the tag strings to preserve them inside the variable, but I can't seem to find anything in the docs or the lists - I'm obviously using the wrong search terms.
> 
> Any clues gratefully received.
> Best,
> Keith..
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