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The string-htmlencode() function

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The string-htmlencode() extension function html encodes the specified string.

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string exf:string-htmlencode(arg1)

Parameters:

  • arg1: a node reference or string literal.
    Notice: when a node reference is used, the inner text of the node will be taken as string to html encode.

Example

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" 
  xmlns:xf="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms" 
  xmlns:exf="http://smartsite.nl/namespaces/xforms/1.0" >
 <head>
  <title>Example</title>
  <xf:model>
   <xf:instance>
    <data xmlns="">     
     <html><![CDATA[
      <p class="paragraph">Html encode/decode test</p>
     ]]></html>
    </data>
   </xf:instance>
  </xf:model>
 </head>
 <body>
  <xf:group ref="/data" appearance="full">
   <xf:label/>
   <xf:output value="exf:string-htmlencode(html)" />
  </xf:group>
 </body>
</html>

The result will be:

&lt;p class=&quot;paragraph&quot;&gt;Html encode/decode test&lt;/p&gt;


Namespace

This function is available within the Smartsite XForms namespace (http://smartsite.nl/namespaces/xforms/1.0).

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