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title	id	weight	draft	author
escape_xml_characters	escape_xml_characters	20	false	people

NAME

escape_xml_characters

escape characters for xml documents

local ds = require "lib/dtutils.string"
local result = ds.escape_xml_characters(str)

str - string - the string that needs escaped

escape_xml_characters provides the escape sequences for

"&", '"', "'", "<", and ">"

with the corresponding

"&amp;","&quot;", "&apos;", "&lt;", and "&gt;"

result - string - the string containing escapes for the xml characters