[flexcoders] Re: Encoding XML Character Entity References *properly*

[valdhor]

Try this:

private function htmlEscape(str:String):String
{
     return XML(new XMLNode(XMLNodeType.TEXT_NODE, str)).toXMLString();
}

It uses the legacy ActionScript 2 object. I don't know how long this
will stay around but it is included in the latest 3.5SDK (Not sure about
4).

HTH



Steve

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Peter Valdemar Mørch <li...@...>
wrote:
>
> Hi, I didn't get any replies, so here is a polite bump...
>
> My question is basically this: How do I create an XML node with a
> toXMLString() value of:
>
> <value>a &lt;foo&gt;string&lt;/foo&gt;/&amp;</value>
>
> from a value of
>
> var value:String = "a <foo>string</foo>/&";
>
> Is this really something one is expected to code by hand using RegExp
> or split&join? Isn't this something everybody who needs to send /
> recieve XML needs to be safe? I just can't find it anywhere.
>
> Also, I wrote:
> > P.S.: Please don't tell me about escape() because it URL-encodes,
> > which is not the same thing. (For "a&b" I want "a&amp;b", not
> > "a%26b).
>
> Sorry if this offended anyone. I didn't mean to be rude.
>
> Peter
> --
> Peter Valdemar Mørch
> http://www.morch.com
>