Escape XML

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Created Nov ’15

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Hello.

I'm fetching data from Spotifys Web API. Some of the strings in the response have characters which XML does not like. (&)

How do I escape this string in TVJS? I've tried using XMLSerializer and .replace but they do not seem to work in the tvOS environment.

Thanks in advance,

Jeremy Karlsson

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enjikaka OP

Nov ’15

Turn out this worked just fine.

function escapeForXML(string) {
  return string
    .replace(/&/g, '&amp;')
    .replace(/</g, '&lt;')
    .replace(/>/g, '&gt;')
    .replace(/"/g, '&quot;');
}

xCode is giving worthless debug information, so it's really heard to know where the error is. In this case, I forgot to escape a string in the template, but the debug info did not tell me that. Sorry for this thread.

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