Re: [basex-talk] Way to escape XML?

On Sun, 2019-03-24 at 04:22 +0100, Andreas Mixich wrote:

let $xml as element() := <xml>Hello World</xml> return serialize($xml, map{"method":"entity-escaped-string"}

would result in

&lt;xml&gt;Hello World&lt;/xml&gt;

One way,

declare function local:escapexml($input as item()*) as xs:string? { <wrapper>{fn:serialize($input)}</wrapper>/text() };

declare option output:method "xml";

local:escapexml( <boy> <name>Simon</name> <age>24 years</age> <socks>blue</socks> </boy> )

Note that if you don’t have the XML output method, strings are output without escaping, so you can’t see that it has worked.

Liam