From a9b456dbde88aaed474ba87854215353de957677 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: MarkNahabedian <naha@mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 10 May 2026 10:38:36 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] escape should work with AbstractString.  Unit tests pass.

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

diff --git a/src/XML.jl b/src/XML.jl
index 273bfda..1ce7f20 100644
--- a/src/XML.jl
+++ b/src/XML.jl
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ function unescape(x::AbstractString)
     end
     return result
 end
-function escape(x::String)
+function escape(x::AbstractString)
     result = replace(x, r"&(?!amp;|quot;|apos;|gt;|lt;)" => "&amp;")
     for (pat, r) in escape_chars[2:end]
         result = replace(result, pat => r)