How to HTML encode
xml entity_2018_09_24.slp (9.3 KB)
Hi,
We recently encountered an issue involving passing a variable to an XML generator. The variable contains an ampersand (‘&’), which causes the XML generator ...
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The next release of the platform will have an expression language function for converting characters to their HTML entities. Until then, I think most people use replace() to do the substitution on the string, like so:
$msg.replaceAll('&', '&').replaceAll('<', '<').replaceAll('>', '>')
Or, the slightly fancier:
$msg.replace(/&|<|>/g, m => match m { '&' => '&', '<' => '<', '>' => '>' })
