Xml as argument in JS

Ollie1986

Hey, I have a HTML document with a lot of (random placed) XML -files in a table. Now if a field has more then 100characters I want to open it in a popup (with a button) but! because my XML-files contain quotes and so it gives errors. How can u solve this problem? thx!

Dmitry Khudorozhkov

Solution is simple: escape your XML data before showing. Escaping converts " symbols to " sequence. Look at the escape function in JS reference.

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Ollie1986

there is the problem, you cant give quote as parameter in a Javascript And you are saying to escape it with a javascript... thx!

Dmitry Khudorozhkov

Just looked in MSDN - escape isn't that method, sorry... This function helps me:

function escapeString(str)
{
var escAmpRegEx = /&/g;
var escLtRegEx = //g;
var quotRegEx = /"/g;
var aposRegEx = /'/g;

str = str.replace(escAmpRegEx, "&");
str = str.replace(escLtRegEx, "<");
str = str.replace(escGtRegEx, ">");
str = str.replace(quotRegEx, """);
str = str.replace(aposRegEx, "'");

return str;

}

After using it, str will not contail any illegal chars.

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Ollie1986

I have escaped it in C# before it's written now thx!