How do I escape double quotes in attributes in an XML String in T-SQL?

Question

Pretty simple question - I have an attribute that I would like to have double quotes in. How do I escape them? I\'ve tried

• \\\"
• \"\"
• \\\\\"

Answer 1

Wouldn't that be " in xml? i.e.

"hi "mom" lol" 

**edit: ** tested; works fine:

declare @xml xml

 set @xml = ''

select @xml.value('(//item/@value)[1]','varchar(50)')