Since it&#39;s XML, have you tried &amp;quot;<br><br>From elsewhere (LUA/ESL/etc) it might be different.<br><br>-Steve<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 March 2013 11:57, Alex Lake <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:alex@digitalmail.com" target="_blank">alex@digitalmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">...actually the value I gave is not illegal, but I&#39;m sure that there are<br>
restrictions (eg. how about a double quote?)<br>
<div><div class="h5">&gt; If I want to set (or export) a channel variable that has special<br>
&gt; characters, such as punctuation marks, how is it done?<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; eg.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; &lt;action application=&quot;export&quot; data=&quot;sip_h_pop_url=<a href="http://www.google.com" target="_blank">http://www.google.com</a>&quot;/&gt;<br>
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&gt; is illegal<br>
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