On 08/26/2010 10:56 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
I don't know of any general-purpose way to have
"</string>" in a string literal (or anywhere else),
The simple approach is to use JavaScript string literal escapes:
`"\x3C/script>"`.
A JSON encoder may offer the option to avoid HTML-special characters in
string literals, encoded as escapes like `\u003C`. This allows literals
to be included in a JavaScript block that may or may not be in a CDATA
element, so may or may not need HTML-encoding.
other than splitting it up like "</scr" + "ipt>".
This is a common but wrong idiom that should be avoided; it won't
validate because in HTML4 the `</` sequence itself (ETAGO) ends a script
block.
elmt.innerHTML = 'Hi there<?php echo htmlspecialchars($name) ?>.';
Is a common error (security hole).
Encoding text for use in a JavaScript string literal (`\`-escaping) is
an entirely different proposition to encoding text for use in HTML
(entity/character references).
PHP offers no JS-string-literal-escape function. `addslashes` is very
close, but won't handle some cases with non-ASCII characters correctly.
Better to use `json_encode` to transfer the string, then write as text:
elmt.textContent = <?php echo json_encode('Hi there, '+$name,
JSON_HEX_TAG); ?>
(assuming innerText or Text Node backup for IE/older browsers.)
A 'magic' escaping feature that will somehow guess what sort of encoding
the author means is wishful (impossible) thinking. A base64-encoded
entity reference could do nothing for JavaScript, CSS or other nested
string context.
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And Clover
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