[flexcoders] Escaping HTML markup in strings?

[Maciek Sakrejda]

What's the best way to escape HTML markup in strings? My data tips are
partially constructed from user input, and when that user input is
something like "<foo>", I would like them encoded to "&lt;foo&gt;".

Thanks,
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Maciek Sakrejda
Truviso, Inc.
http://www.truviso.com