[Israel.pm] escaping the values of XML attributes

[Shlomo Yona]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Offer Kaye wrote:

> In the $string, substitute all double quotes to the corresponding
> entity ("&quote;" or """ , whichever representation works), then
> simply use " as the quote character, and leave any ' chars alone.

This is a practical idea.
Now, what to do with other illegal character such as
 	<
 	>
 	&
and so on?

There should be some standard escaping procedure (for
writing and then an unescaping procedure for reading...)



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