Ok, what's the trick to getting special characters to be converted to their escape codes (eg. " to "). This is particularly important for forms in which the user may enter these types of character. For instance, if I create a property on a folder that is a string, and if the string I enter has quotes around it... it doesn't show in the interface the next time I go to edit the properties. For example, in MCExam, the 2nd sample question has this as an answer "bar, spam". If I go to the folder's properties to change it, it doesn't show up. In the source it looks like: <input type="text" name="ans3:string" size="35" value=""bar, spam""> Obviously, if I then save changes, the value is gone altogether. Is there a way of automatically converting quotes and other special characters to their escape codes (like the sqlquote method)? Thanks, --- John Eikenberry [jae@kavi.com - http://taos.kavi.com/~jae/] ______________________________________________________________ "A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will deserve neither and lose both." --B. Franklin