Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Application Server:
Developing WebSpeed Applications

html-encode

This function converts various characters that can be misinterpreted as HTML formatting to their HTML entity representation. The characters <, >, & and " (double quote) are converted to <, >, &, and " respectively.

Location: web\method\cgiutils.i

Parameters:

INPUT p_in AS CHARACTER

The character string to encode.

Returns: CHARACTER

Notes: This function cannot be called more than once on a string. This is because ampersands are replaced with & and recursive calls will fail.

Examples:

PROCEDURE displayFields: \*------------------------------------------------------------------------- Purpose: Override standard ADM method -------------------------------------------------------------------------*\ RUN SUPER. \* The comment field may contain <, >, quotes and ampersands. To be safe, convert these characters. *\ IF AVAILABLE Customer THEN   Customer.Comments:SCREEN-VALUE IN FRAME {&FRAME-NAME} =   html-encode(Customer.Comments). END PROCEDURE.