<strfmt> suggestion

basement_addict · Post by **basement_addict** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 7:02 pm

It would be cool if there was a flag to <strfmt> a string into valid xml text

<$var="I've worked for at&t for < 1 year">
<strfmt %xml $var>
<xml>
<node>$ret</node>
</xml>

-------
result

<xml>
<node>I've worked for at&t for < 1 year</node>
</xml>

Post by **John** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 8:40 pm

You could use %H, which does HTML formatting. If you are in HTML mode anyway you could just display $var, and it will be escaped automatically for you.

basement_addict · Post by **basement_addict** » Thu Feb 21, 2002 11:54 am

what about characters like é in résumé.

it will return invalid character and not be well formed xml.

Post by **Kai** » Thu Feb 21, 2002 1:43 pm

<strfmt "%H"> won't change 8-bit characters. You'd have to use a <sandr> to replace them with sequences like `&#x92'.