Hi, I have a problem with the replacement of special characters (xml-entities) in xml-text-properties of the etree.tostring method: After etree.tostring the characters &,<,> are replaced with & < > but ' and " remain in the text-properties. e.g.: <Property Name="Value">final_delim=end, record_delim='\n', delim='|', quote=double</Property> But I need: <Property Name="Value">final_delim=end, record_delim='\n', delim='|', quote=double</Property> I wrote a method that iterates through all text properties after the tostring-method and replaces ' and " of this text-properties in the serialized string, but with large xml-files this consumes a lot of time. Does anybody have a better solution? Kind Regards, Thomas Ing. Thomas Schlögl 4266-UGG3C1 / CFO Datawarehouse Core Solutions Member of the Crossfunctions-Team UniCredit Global Information Services S.p.A. (UGIS S.p.A.) Zweigniederlassung Österreich Nordbergstrasse 13 A-1090 Vienna Room: TZB-6.18 Tel: +43 1 71730 50499 Mobile: - mailto:thomas.schloegl@wave-solutions.com <mailto:anton.wazin@wave-solutions.com>