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XML-escape given string
function (s) {
return s.replace(
/[&<>'"]/g, // All characters we want to escape
function (c){
return "&" // prefix
+ { // lookup map
"&": "amp",
"<": "lt",
">": "gt",
"'": "apos",
'"': "quot"
}[c]
+ ";" // suffix
})
}
function(s){return s.replace(/[&<>'"]/g,function(c){return "&"+{"&":"amp","<":"lt",">":"gt","'":"apos",'"':"quot"}[c]+";"})}
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, December 2004
Copyright (C) 2011 Ates Goral <http://magnetiq.com>
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
as the name is changed.
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.
{
"name": "xmlEscape",
"description": "Escape basic XML characters",
"keywords": [
"string",
"escaping",
"xml"
]
}
var xmlEscape = function(s){return s.replace(/[&<>'"]/g,function(c){return "&"+{"&":"amp","<":"lt",">":"gt","'":"apos",'"':"quot"}[c]+";"})};
console.log(xmlEscape("testing <element attribute=\"value\"> & apostrophe (')"));
// testing &lt;element attribute=&quot;value&quot;&gt; &amp; apostrophe (&apos;)
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atk commented Sep 19, 2011

While Option is available even in IE6, Audio is not even present in IE8.

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@atk

While Option is available even in IE6 […]

It is available in IE6 but it doesn’t work the way it’s being used here.

@jimmywarting
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I win, 39 byte

s=>new Audio(s).outerHTML.slice(27,-10)

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@jimmywarting ES6 FTW!

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