escape_xml_characters

🔗NAME

escape_xml_characters

🔗SYNOPSIS

escape characters for xml documents

🔗USAGE

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

str - string - the string that needs escaped

🔗DESCRIPTION

escape_xml_characters provides the escape sequences for

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

with the corresponding

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

.

🔗RETURN VALUE

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

🔗REFERENCE

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1091945/what-characters-do-i-need-to-escape-in-xml-documents