html_encode

Certain characters have special significance in HTML, and should be represented by HTML entities if they are to preserve their meanings. This function returns a string with some of these conversions made.

The translations performed are:

  • '&' (ampersand) becomes '&'
  • '"' (double quote) becomes '"'
  • ''' (single quote) becomes '''
  • '<' (less than) becomes '&lt;'
  • '>' (greater than) becomes '&gt;'

As an example, the following snippet has been taken from Core Concepts - RSS Feeds, where we are are supplyig the feed with HTML encoded excerpt of our pages -

<cms:html_encode>
    <cms:excerptHTML><cms:show my_news_text /></cms:excerptHTML>
</cms:html_encode>

Parameters

This tag does not accept any parameters. Everything enclosed within its opening and closing tags is considered as its input.

Variables

This tag does not set any variables.