Swift write contents of XML that uses single quote: '

Question

Swift 3

I am trying to write the contents of an XML file to disk but all my single quotes end up looking like &apos and not '. What do I need to do in order to get the single quotes to be written?

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In this XML file, strings are always enclosed in single quotes, and arrays are comma separated.

This is the way an array of names must look when written:

<names value="'Fred', 'Wilma', 'George'"/>

And this is what I'm getting

<names value="&apos;Fred&apos;,&apos;Wilma&apos;,&apos;George&apos;/>

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Answer 1

Solved

Martin R's reminder was all I needed to figure out a way to deal with the situation.

I just treated the xml as a literal string and used brute force.

let newXML = xmlAsString.replacingOccurrences(of: "'", with: "'")

Thanks!