Re: [PHP Template] A suggestion

Andrei Zmievski wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Dan Libby wrote: > > html escaping should work for XML also, so long as it uses character entities. > > For plain ascii, why would they want to escape? Anyway, the attribute should > > probably be called "htmlescape" instead of escape. Actually, more useful would > > be > > escape="html|xml|url", and equivalent unescape="html|xml|url". There > > are > > probably some other escape types that would be good too. > > Yeah, that was my question, is there a difference between HTML and XML > escaping? Not to my knowledge. It is possible that some html escaping routines might use © et al instead of the ordinal value, which would not work for xml. But I don't know about the PHP routines. > URL escaping might be good, but I have to ask, should it really be done > in the template or in the script? It is a common enough requirement that I think designers may need to do it on a semi-regular basis. Further, it is a more general escaping mechanism than html escape, which doesn't escape newlines, tabs, etc that people often need escaped. -dan