Hi, We now integrated plantuml into the quickbook / docbook - toolchain. plantuml uses text based inputs to declare UML diagrams. Some of the text markups include "..". For embedding the diagrams directly inside the document source we use: [template plantuml[filename scale text] '''<mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata fileref="'''[filename]'''" sclae="'''[scale]'''"/> </imageobject> <textobject><![CDATA[ @startuml ''' [filename]''' ''' [text] ''' @enduml ]]> </textobject> '''] and just call plantuml on the output of quickbook. So the user calls [plantuml my_diag.svg..60..''' Foo --> Bar Blub ..> Bar '''] An extended variant also combines everything into a docbook figure.. To bypass the issue I now consider splitting up the call into two templates, and not passing the plantuml content through the template calls.. Are there any other solutions possible? regards Andreas