Assume we have a schema with separator=", %NL;" and escapeCharacter="\" and the following data: abc,de\CRLFfg,hij Where CRLF is the windows-style line ending. How does the escape character escape the CRLF? One interpretation is that the the escape character only escapes the following character, which means CRLF will not match %NL;, but the LF does. So you might end up with a infoset like this: <seq> <e>abc</e> <e>deCR</e> <e>fg</e> <e>hij</e> </seq> Alternatively, one might think the escape character should escape the entire CRLF, so the resulting infoset might look like this: <seq> <e>abc</e> <e>deCRLFfg</e> <e>hij</e> </seq> More generally, what happens when one separator is a suffix of another. For example: separator="XXYY YY" escapeCharacter="\" data: abc,de\XXYYfg,hij Does the escape character escape the entire XXYY, and YY is not considered as a delimiter? Does this change at all if a separator is also a prefix of another, e.g. separator="XXYY XX YY", which is very similar to %NL;? - Steve