... <tableName ... <memoField <[CDATA[ Some long long memo text containing some symbols &X&;<> not allowed for attributes ]] </memoField ... </tableName ...2. Attribute based XML and memos pre-processed in order to replace all control symbols, less-than, greater-than and some other special symbols with their XML-ENTITY representations (e.g.  for chr(7))
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<tableName memoField="Some long long memo text containing some symbols &X&;<> not allowed for attributes" />
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see http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconattributevaluenormalization.asp for more info about XML-ENTITIES and attribute normalization (on the address above there is a link to the W3C XML specification.Make solutions, not programs!