Thanks, Sergei. Can you direct me to some documentation on how to preserve those illegal characters?

>There are ways to represent illegal characters in XML. If you don't care about preserving them, use CHRTRAN
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>lcIllegalCharacters = "..."
>lcReplacemets = REPLICATE("*", LEN(lcIllegalCharacters)) 
>... CHRTRAN(cField, lcIllegalCharacters, lcReplacemets)
>

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>>I want to check fields in a table for illegal characters and replace them with '*'. This is because I'm running a program that converts table data to XML and the program chokes on illegal characters.
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>>Is there a way to say something like this:
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>>replace all cField with STRTRAN(cField, IllegalCharacter, '*')
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>>Thanks,
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>>Yossi