XMLQuering using single-quotes and preserved characters

[Anonymous]

Hello,

My application is currently using the daap Query interface in order to retrieve all albums by an specific artist.
/databases/1/browse/albums?query=’daap.songartist:[artistname]’

This works great, until some reserved characters are used (see xmlapi spec).
e.g.
/databases/1/browse/albums?query=’daap.songartist:this ‘s will * never ! @ # + work’

Is there anyway to escaping the reserved characters, in a way?
e.g.
/databases/1/browse/albums?query=’daap.songartist:this ‘s will * never ! @ # + work’

ofcourse url_encoding works for some characters, but unfortunately not for all and passing more obscure HEX codes such as %26 for quotes doesnt seem to work.

Is there any other way, how i can retrieve all albums by an specific artist without having to query by an artist name?

Thanks,
Tony

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