1) for all the files, the code was displaying "'" instead of a literal apostrophe character. in ajax_search.php I added a call to invoke saveHTML() in def_xml_transform() in xmldb.php. That seems to have introduced the problem of all apostrophes being rendered as html entities, so I applied html_entity_decode in ajax_search to the output from the def_xml_transform. That solved the problem. 2) in the Dwayn file (lsrf1) additional problems arose because the values in the id field for the timeline and each timestamp were wrong.