[MarkLogic Dev General] Passing Character Entities to Output

[Betty Harvey]

I asked this question on the XQuery list and it looks like this can't be
done in straight XQuery.  I am asking this question here just in case
there is a MarkLogic function that can be  used.

I need to pass a linefeed character to the output.  I am creating Excel
spreadsheets where I need a list on separate lines in a single cell. 
Excel recognizes the character entity 
 for linefeeds.

My output needs to look like this:

<cell><data>hello&#10;big&#10;world</data></cell>

The output I am getting is:

<cell><data>hello
big
world</data></cell>

I have tried several variations of:

let $newline := "&#10;"
let $newline := fn:concat("&", "#10;")

etc. All having the same results, getting a linefeed instead of placing
the actual character entity in the output.

Are there any MarkLogic tricks to passing a character entity through
without serializing it?

TIA!

Betty



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