= escape - HTML/URI/shell escaping utilities


escape library provides several HTML/URI/shell escaping functions.

== Author

Tanaka Akira <akr@fsij.org>

== Home Page

((<URL:http://www.a-k-r.org/escape/>))

== Feature

* several escaping/composing functions
  * HTML text
  * HTML attribute value
  * HTML form (x-www-form-urlencoded)
  * URI path
  * shell command line
* dedicated classes for escaped strings
* escape and compose strongly related strings at once

== Usage

  require 'escape'

  Escape.shell_command(["echo", "*"]) #=> #<Escape::ShellEscaped: echo '*'>
  Escape.uri_path("a?b/c?d/e?f") #=> #<Escape::PercentEncoded: a%3Fb/c%3Fd/e%3Ff>
  Escape.html_form([["a","b"], ["c","d"]]) #=> #<Escape::PercentEncoded: a=b&c=d>
  Escape.html_form({"a"=>"b", "c"=>"d"}) #=> #<Escape::PercentEncoded: a=b&c=d>
  Escape.html_text("a & b < c > d") #=> #<Escape::HTMLEscaped: a &amp; b &lt; c &gt; d>
  Escape.html_attr_value("ab&<>\"c") #=> #<Escape::HTMLAttrValue: "ab&amp;&lt;&gt;&quot;c">

== Requirements

* ruby : http://www.ruby-lang.org/

== Download

* latest release: ((<escape-0.2.tar.gz|URL:escape-0.2.tar.gz>))

* development version in Subversion repository:

    % svn co svn://svn@svn.a-k-r.org/akr/escape/trunk escape

== Install

  % ruby install.rb

== Reference Manual

See rdoc/classes/Escape.html or
((<URL:http://www.a-k-r.org/escape/rdoc/classes/Escape.html>))

== License

The modified BSD licence

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