[XML-SIG] processing "special characters" efficiently

[Craig.Curtin@wdr.com]

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hi,
i'm looking for an efficient mechanism for filtering out
XML special characters....

the following code executes in slo-mo, can anyone =20
identify a more efficient way? this is obviously not
optimal. any help is appreciated.

thanks,

craig

text2XMLSpecialCharacters=3D{   '&': '&', =20
                        '<': '&lt;', =20
                        '>': '&gt;', =20
                  }

for k in text2XMLspecialChars.keys():
      data =3D string.replace(data, k, text2XMLspecialChars[k])


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