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Mackinaw's avatar
Mackinaw
Adept
14 years ago

character encoding in freemarker

Hello, I'm generating an XML doc in the endpoints, and I need to encode the fields.    Currently, I'm doing: <mytag>${blog.title}</mytag>   The problem is if the title is "Tom & Jerry", the "&"...
AdamN's avatar
AdamN
Khoros Oracle
14 years ago

Hi Mackinaw,

 

Freemarker offers a few built-ins for encoding, depending on exactly what you want to accomplish. Perhaps one of these will work for you?

http://freemarker.sourceforge.net/docs/ref_builtins_string.html#ref_builtin_xml

http://freemarker.sourceforge.net/docs/ref_builtins_string.html#ref_builtin_url

 

There's also HTML and XHTML encoding, in case that's helpful:

http://freemarker.sourceforge.net/docs/ref_builtins_string.html#ref_builtin_html

http://freemarker.sourceforge.net/docs/ref_builtins_string.html#ref_builtin_xhtml

 

And if none of those will do exactly what you'd like, there's also a replace built-in:

http://freemarker.sourceforge.net/docs/ref_builtins_string.html#ref_builtin_replace

 

I hope this helps!

  • Mackinaw's avatar
    Mackinaw
    Adept
    14 years ago

    Thanks - I found some inconsistent on how/when the client application passes the value through v. parses it - i wound up just using CDATA instead.


    Thanks,

    Paul