[XML-SIG] Ideas for web/ package

[Thomas B. Passin]

[M.-A. Lemburg]


> >
> > Can anyone think of other things that could be part of this package?
>
> The usual bunch of HTML tweaking functions, e.g. fast escaping,
> unescaping, finding certain parts within the page (in a non-parsing
> way, since this often breaks with todays HTML hackery),
> link checker, link finder, etc.
>

Another thing that comes up often enough to be handled is escaping markup
delimiters (as opposed to escaping for url encoding), so markup that is
intended for display (i.e., show the source xml) can be put into attributes
and elements.  Would it make sense to include this kind of escape/unescape?

Cheers,

Tom P