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DracTK — 2007-03-19T17:11:35

This function also strips Carriage return from the input (maybe the line feed as well) - the strings it removes are a subset of what xmlFormat function removes.

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healey_mark — 2007-03-12T15:09:05

jrunrandy,

Your example of the source string containing > already would still be encodable and decodable:

htmlEditFormat( '>' ) = '>'

Which is easily decodeable back to '>'

Maybe the reason there's no decoding function is that there isn't much use for it...

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jrunrandy — 2005-02-15T06:15:46

Good point. I've run into this myself. There is no function to reverse the HTMLEditFormat process. However, in some cases, you can just keep a copy of the original string.

Actually, once I think it through, the problems of reversing this process are clear: the function replaces special characters (for example, >) with HTML-escaped equivalents (for example, >), which you can easily reverse; but what if the original string already contained > - you wouldn't want to change that to >.

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2005-02-15T01:16:28

You should say wether a function exists to reverse this process. I can't find one.