From 9df29ff742458dd73530406064b0bc88555b2423 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: TimG1964 <157401228+TimG1964@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2025 14:32:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Update `escape()` to address issue #31

---
 src/XML.jl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/XML.jl b/src/XML.jl
index a25a8c9..c6d57de 100644
--- a/src/XML.jl
+++ b/src/XML.jl
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ function unescape(x::AbstractString)
     return result
 end
 function escape(x::String)
-    result = replace(x, r"&(?=\s)" => "&amp;")
+    result = replace(x, r"&(?!amp;|quot;|apos;|gt;|lt;)" => "&amp;")
     for (pat, r) in escape_chars[2:end]
         result = replace(result, pat => r)
     end