is there a kotlin library that escapes strings to ...

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[christophsturm]

is there a kotlin library that escapes strings to be safe as xml attributes? I could use https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-text/javadocs/api-release/org/apache/commons/text/StringEscapeUtils.html but I would really like to avoid adding a dependency

[janvladimirmostert]

isn't there just like 4 characters that needs escaping in XML?

[Ben Woodworth]

Going by this reference, this function should do the trick

XmlEscaped.kt

[Ben Woodworth]

Although Apache's implementation handles some extra cases (like control characters and invalid unicode codepoints): source code

[Rob Elliot]

In my experience, whenever I think “isn’t it just...” about serialising to or parsing a text based data format I’m just about to introduce a bug.

[christophsturm]

@Ben Woodworth thanks that snippet is exactly what i need. for attributes I'm also going to escape \n but then its perfect