On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:51:29PM -0500, Patrick K. O'Brien wrote:
> Some more examples would be nice, of course.

Try this on for size (written assuming my proposed change of making
html_quote replace " with "):

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html_quote
----------

Use for quoting data that will be used within CDATA attribute values or
as element contents.  Examples:

    '' % html_quote(title)
    '' % html_quote(data)

Note that the " character should be used to surround attribute values.


value_quote
-----------

[not recommended since always using html_quote is simpler]

Use for quoting CDATA attribute values.  For example:

    data = '..."...©...'
    ...
    '' % value_quote(data)

The " character will be replaced with """ and the value will be
surrounded by " characters.  The & character also replaced with &
because some old browsers incorrectly interprete entity references
inside of CDATA values.  This function is of marginal utility since you
can always use html_quote and surround attribute values with "
characters.


url_quote
---------

Use for quoting data to be included as part of a URL, for example:

    input = "foo bar"
    ...
    '' % url_quote(input)

Note that URLs are usually used as attribute values and should be quoted
using html_quote.  For example,

    url = 'http://example.com/?a=1©=0'
    ...
    'do something' % html_quote(url)

html_quote is required because some old browsers incorrectly interprete
SGML entity references inside of CDATA attribute values.
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Is that clearer?

> P.S. Any chance we can wean you guys off your home-grown unit test framework
> and onto the standard unittest module? 

Probably not. :-)

  Neil