[Developers] html entity encoding

David Flanagan david at davidflanagan.com
Fri May 2 22:19:45 UTC 2008


Nick Thompson wrote:
> it also escapes " to &dquo; so that the returned values
> are safe in html attribute values as well as in html text.
> 
>      nick

Not according to my tests, it doesn't. Run this query on sandbox:

{"guid":"#9202a8c04000641f80000000082ef550",
  "name":null}

You'll see that &,<, and > are escaped in the name, but " is only given 
a JSON backslash in the response, not &dquo;

Nick, you're probably the one to ask (changing the subject here) whether 
mqlread has some way of specifying a default language (other than 
/lang/en) for names.  Is there an envelope parameter or HTTP header for 
this yet?

	David


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