I'm not sure what you mean by that. " Merge Modules append the Module/@Id to 
all identifiers."

Which identifiers? How is that breaking the escape characters? Could you please 
elaborate?

Thanks in advance
Erkan Celme
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 11:24 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Escaping brackets [ ] in merge modules (MSM)

Merge Modules append the Module/@Id to all identifiers.

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Erkan Celme < ece...@discovertechnologies.com> 
wrote:

> There are cases where I need to have brackets (square brackets) in 
> certain actions like running a SQL script that requires brackets or in 
> an XPath expression. You can escape them in a regular installer (MSI) 
> project by using  [\[] or [\]], to open and close respectively. When I 
> do the same in a merge module, it doesn't work. For instance, if I 
> have a property called
> PROP1 with a value of "Value1", if I need, "[Value1]" as a literal, I 
> can do [\[][Value1][\]] and get what I need. However, in a merge 
> module, the same syntax produces an empty string. Does anyone have any 
> idea why it doesn't work the same way in a merge module? Any ideas on 
> how to work around this?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Erkan
>
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