Re: Encoding a string for HTML

FROM : Peter Bierman
DATE : Thu Jul 20 20:41:45 2006

At 10:18 AM -0700 7/20/06, David Dunham wrote:
>On 20 Jul 2006, at 09:36, Douglas Davidson wrote:
>

>>>I'm trying to output a string suitable for using in HTML -- no
>>>troublesome characters like < and >.

>

>>Using NSAttributedString's HTML generation should work, although
>>it's a bit heavyweight if you don't actually want any markup.

>
>So there's no lightweight way to do it? (Other than rolling my own
>list of entities, which seems like reinventing the wheel.)



You can use
CFXMLCreateStringByEscapingEntities()
Given a CFString object containing XML source, returns a CFString
object with the specified XML entities escaped. The standard XML
entities are always replaced.


http://developer.apple.com/documentation/CoreFoundation/Reference/CFXMLTreeRef/Reference/reference.html

-pmb