xmlentities

[Ola Natvig]

Hi all

Does anyone know a good library for transfering non standard characters
to enity characters in html. I want characters like < and > to be
transformed to &lt; and &gt;. And the norwegian ø to &oslash;

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[Duncan Booth]

Re: xmlentities

Ola Natvig wrote:
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> Does anyone know a good library for transfering non standard characters
> to enity characters in html. I want characters like < and > to be
> transformed to &lt; and &gt;. And the norwegian ø to &oslash;
>[/color]

You could use cgi.escape to handle &, <, and > and then use error handling
on unicode.encode to handle the other characters. That doesn't do quite
what you ask since your ø will become &#248:
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>>> s = u'<ø>'
>>> cgi.escape(s).e ncode('ascii', 'xmlcharrefrepl ace')[/color][/color][/color]
'&lt;&#248;&gt; '


If you really want named entities, then have a look at
lib/test/test_codeccallb acks which has a test called
test_xmlcharnam ereplace that registers another codec error handler
'test.xmlcharna mereplace'. I think you could probably extract that and use
it as above.

[Fredrik Lundh]

Re: xmlentities

Ola Natvig wrote:
[color=blue]
> Does anyone know a good library for transfering non standard characters to enity characters in
> html. I want characters like < and > to be transformed to &lt; and &gt;. And the norwegian ø to
> &oslash;[/color]

the third example on

http://effbot.org/librarybook/htmlentitydefs.htm

includes a function that translates an ISO-8859-1 encoded string to HTML-
encoded text.

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