Re: [htmltmpl] escaping quotes [was: (no subject)]

[Roger B. W. <ro...@fi...>]

On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 12:39:13AM -0700, Andrew Ho wrote:

>I think adding a generic escape=quote is a bad idea. That doesn't give any
>context, and JavaScript strings quote quotes way differently from (for
>example) HTML or SQL strings.

And SQL quoting is server-specific; and, perhaps more to the point,
there's already a perfectly good quoting method in DBI for SQL strings.

>I like the idea of adding a simple way to add functions to do quoting.

Agreed.

Roger