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]

Ola Natvig wrote:

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;

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:

s = u'<ø>'
cgi.escape(s).encode('ascii', 'xmlcharrefreplace')

'&lt;ø&gt;'
If you really want named entities, then have a look at
lib/test/test_codeccallbacks which has a test called
test_xmlcharnamereplace that registers another codec error handler
'test.xmlcharnamereplace'. I think you could probably extract that and use
it as above.

[Fredrik Lundh]

Ola Natvig wrote:

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;

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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