Re: contrib/xml2: add function xml_encode_special_chars

From: Markus Bertheau <twanger(at)bluetwanger(dot)de>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: contrib/xml2: add function xml_encode_special_chars
Date: 2004-11-06 23:42:22
Message-ID: 1099784542.6074.18.camel@teetnang
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В Сбт, 06.11.2004, в 23:13, Simon Riggs пишет:
> On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 00:36, Markus Bertheau wrote:
> > В Сбт, 06.11.2004, в 01:24, Peter Eisentraut пишет:
> > > Markus Bertheau wrote:
> > > > attached is a patch that adds the function xml_encode_special_chars
> > > > to the xml2 contrib module. It's against 8.0beta4. It's intended for
> > > > commit.
> > >
> > > Would you also tell us what this function does?
> >
> > It calls the similarly named function from libxml2. It replaces
> > characters that carry a special meaning in XML (<, >, &, " and \r) with
> > their respective XML entities.
>
> Wow! Hadn't noticed xml2 didn't do that. Thats pretty important...

What do you mean, it didn't do that? Where had you expected it to do
that?

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Markus Bertheau <twanger(at)bluetwanger(dot)de>

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