escaping text data - CPAN::Forum

Posted on 2005-07-13 11:39:38-07 by purge

escaping text data

I was wondering if there was a way to automatically escape characters - XML::Twig seems to automatically do & , < , > etc, but I experienced problems when using a £ (UK pound sign, not html entity - real one). Is this a fault with the escaping mechanism, or am I just missing something?

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Posted on 2005-07-14 18:35:31-07 by mjash in response to 730

Re: escaping text data

In XML these characters

[&<>"']

are called entities and those five are pre-defined to be replaced with the ampersand-semicolon escape. You can define your own entities too. You don't say how (or where) you are using the UK pound symbol but you might use CDATA rather than TEXT to avoid problems parsing business data.

-mjash

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