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entt_eSape_ccdes for the following characters:
ampersand (&), single quote
double quote
less than (<)
and greater than (?). You should also make sure that
all URLs follow the REC_-3986 standard for URIs, the REC_298Z standard for IRIs, and the XALstandard: If you are
using
script to generate your URLS, You can generally URL escape them as part of that script. You will still need to
entity escape them. For instance, the following python script entity escapes http Ilwwwexample comlview?
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python
Python 2.2.2
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2003, 19:13:11)
import xml
sax. saxutils
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