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Dynamic title in custom link

I am setting up a custom hyperlink via an XML feed and would like to use a custom title.

This works...

print("<cell title='customtitle'>");
print("<![CDATA[<a href='details.php?id=".$row['id']."'>Details</a>]]>");
print("</cell>");


This does not work...

print("<cell title='<![CDATA[".$row['client_name']."]]>'>");
print("<![CDATA[<a href='details.php?id=".$row['id']."'>Details</a>]]>");
print("</cell>");

I'd like to use the client_name field to be the Title. I'm attempting to use CDATA because some names may contain the ampersand sign.

XML allow usage of CDATA only for tags, it can't be used in attributes.

There are 3 possible solution

a) replace & with &amp; in client_name field, in such case you will not need to use CDATA
b) switch to native HTML tooltips
in js code 
      grid.attachEvent("onMouseOver",function(){ return false; })
in XML 
print("<cell>"); 
print("<![CDATA[<a href='details.php?id=".$row['id']."' title='".$row['client_name']."'>Details</a>]]>"); 
print("</cell>");

c) use userdata to store necessary data and set title dynamically on client side

Thank you.  I went with option B.