Re: [basex-talk] Way to escape XML?

[Liam R. E. Quin]

On Sun, 2019-03-24 at 04:22 +0100, Andreas Mixich wrote:
> let $xml as element() := <xml>Hello World</xml>
> return serialize($xml, map{"method":"entity-escaped-string"}
> 
> would result in
> 
> &lt;xml&gt;Hello World&lt;/xml&gt;

One way,

declare function local:escapexml($input as item()*) as xs:string?
{
  <wrapper>{fn:serialize($input)}</wrapper>/text()
};

declare option output:method   "xml";

local:escapexml(
  <boy>
    <name>Simon</name>
    <age>24 years</age>
    <socks>blue</socks>
  </boy>
)


Note that if you don’t have the XML output method, strings are output
without escaping, so you can’t see that it has worked.

Liam


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