Try saxon:serialize(), followed by one of the many ways of doing string
replacement to double the quotes. Or you could write a similar extension
function for a different processor. People have in the past posted code
that does serialization in XSLT itself, and then uses
disable-output-escaping to prevent the markup being escaped, but I
wouldn't recommend it myself.

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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Sergiu Ignat
> Sent: 30 September 2003 16:30
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> Subject:  Replace characters in a node and all of its descendents
> 
> 
> I need to generate an SQL "INSERT INTO" statement from an xml 
> document. One of the columns must hold the string 
> representation of an XML node with all of its descendents. To 
> insert this node as a string I must replace each single quote 
> with other two single quotes for conformance with SQL syntax.
> 
> I can not send a deep copy of the node taken with 
> <xsl:copy-of> to the $text parameter of the "replace-string" 
> template posted by Evan Lenz at 
> http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/replace.htm> l
> How can I get 
> a deep copy of a node as a string to process 
> it? Multiple transformations are not recomended. Thanks. Sergiu Ignat
> 
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