Escape Sequences Within Files With Substitution Variable Definitions

If for some reason you want to include a sequence in a configuration file that matches the sequence defined for a substitution variable (:[), you can escape out the sequence by using another [ after the sequence. For example, if you wanted to include the text :[pants] in your configuration file, but didn't want N1 Service Provisioning System software to try and substitute a value for pants, you would use :[[pants].

The configuration generator replaces all occurrences of :[[ in the file with :[

When the input source for the variables you want to substitute is an attribute of a component component that is written in XML, use the usual rules for XML-based escape sequences: