utentity.wbb

Convert HTML markup entities to browser-displayable format.

Syntax

CALL "utentity.wbb",text$

When sending text to a client browser, it may be necessary to include characters that the browser would normally interpret as HTML markup characters but should be displayed as they are stored. Examples include "<", ">", and "&". This routine converts occurrences of these characters to the proper entity markup. For example, the "<" characters are converted to "&lt;".

This routine is called automatically for all data elements by the high-level Basic Web Utility programs, unless the user-defined template attribute "passthru=y" is specified.

 
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