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You can't do knowledge management until you accept that you can't manage knowledge.

One of the biggest problems in scripting and programming is escaping quotes. Quotes have a special meaning, they are usually used for specifying the start and end of a string, such as in <abbr title="eXtensible Markup Language">. But what happens when the string between the quotes also contains quotes? ...Errors!

There are several ways to prevent this situation. The two most common solutions are escaping the quotes by placing a special symbol in front of it such as \" and replacing the quote by its character entity reference ".