xml safe data

[Bidmaron]

Does anyone have routines in lua that take strings and produce xml safe data (that is no & and <) from it (and vice versa)? Just too lazy to write them.

[StuartW]

I have some badly-written encode/decode routines:

function xmlEncode(value)
  local result = string.gsub(value,"&","&");
  result = string.gsub(result,"<","&lt;");
  result = string.gsub(result,">","&gt;");
  return result;
end

function xmlDecode(value)
  local result = string.gsub(value,"&gt;",">");
  result = string.gsub(result,"&lt;","<");
  result = string.gsub(result,"&amp;","&");
  return result;
end

They're not very efficicent though...

Stuart

[Bidmaron]

Thanks, Stuart. I wrote something based on this.