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RE: Converting entities into string


"Michael Kay" <mhkay@iclway.co.uk> wrote
> someone else asked:
> > In short: how can i convert the '<' and '>' into '&lt;' and
> > '&gt;' easily?
> 
> Though why you should want to do something so weird has me quite baffled.
 
Think of "Display HTML/XML source on a web page". Another
(rather weird) use is embedding XML-Snippets into an invocation
of an XML-based interface, for example for storage into a non-XML
aware database (yes, the world *could* be a better place if...)

Regards
J.Pietschmann

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