How to programmatically update an action in another macro?

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Great!

From the link Peter provided.

His example that encodes ASCII text for XML using the Filter action with Encode HTML Entities is here:

Macro to Create a Text Expansion Macro from the Selected Text - Macro Library - Keyboard Maestro Discourse

FWIW I use this instead in a lot of my scripts that work with KM xml:

use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite (10.10) or later
use framework "Foundation"

set unencodedText to "test¥&<me>\"'"

set encodedText to (current application's NSXMLNode's textWithStringValue:unencodedText)'s XMLString() as text
return encodedText
-->test¥&amp;&lt;me&gt;"'

It doesn't encode single and double quotes but I've not had a problem with that.

This version would do that:

use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite (10.10) or later
use framework "Foundation"

set encodedText to (((current application's NSXMLNode's textWithStringValue:unencodedText)'s XMLString()'s stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:"'" withString:"&#x27;")'s stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:"\"" withString:"&quot;") as text
-->test¥&amp;&lt;me&gt;&quot;&#x27;
return encodedText
--> test¥&amp;&lt;me&gt;&quot;&#x27;
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