Enumerations are currently specified by adding ENUM="true" and ENUMVALUE="..."

This introduces a whole new level of quoting special characters and syntax for specifying values for the enumeration

Perhaps instead you could specify the values in XML such as ...

<FIELD NAME="stattype" TYPE="char" LENGTH="20" NOTNULL="true" DEFAULT="activity" SEQUENCE="false" ENUM="true" COMMENT="type of stat">
<ENUMVALUE>value 1</ENUMVALUE>
<ENUMVALUE>value 2</ENUMVALUE>
<ENUMVALUE>value 3</ENUMVALUE>
</FIELD>

or

<FIELD NAME="stattype" TYPE="char" LENGTH="20" NOTNULL="true" DEFAULT="activity" SEQUENCE="false" ENUM="true" COMMENT="type of stat">
<ENUMVALUE value="value 1" />
<ENUMVALUE value="value 2" />
<ENUMVALUE value="value 3" />
</FIELD>

This would remove any doubt when trying to insert special characters into an enum field because the user would just write valid XML.