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encode_xml

Type: modifier

With a value of "1" encodes into entities any characters that XML requires to be encoded. These are: &, ", <, and >.

The difference between this and encode_html is that the latter encodes a much wider set of special characters into HTML entities if you have the HTML::Entities module installed and you have not turned on the NoHTMLEntities option in mt-config.cgi.

By default encode_xml will encapsulate content in a CDATA block if it detects the string to have any HTML content or any HTML entities. If the NoCDATA configuration directive is used, this behavior will be turned off.

Example

<mt:tagname encode_xml="1" />

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