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  3. July 2004

HTTP/XML Output procedures

I ran into a problem today... I'm creating an XML file from a 400
database, and one of the fields has an ampersand embedded in the text. 
When I try to open the XML file in a browser (Firefox .8), it bombs
because of the ampersand (it should be &).  To address this, I'm
going to write a procedure that will find HTML/XML special characters
and replace them with the appropriate codes.  There will also be a
co-procedure for un-converting these as well.

My question is, will this be useful as part of the xRPG library?  And if
so, are there any other similar procedures I could add to create a new
service program?  I already have an "unescape" routine that I use to
convert incoming URL strings from their embedded codes (%20 = a space,
%2c = a comma, etc), so I could add that as well.  Stuff like that or
anything dealing specifically with HTML/XML string processing would be
great.

Joel
http://www.rpgnext.com

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