<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>escape_sgml_chars</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="rivet.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Apache Rivet"><link rel="up" href="commands.html" title="Rivet Tcl Commands and Variables"><link rel="prev" href="env.html" title="env"><link rel="next" href="escape_shell_command.html" title="escape_shell_command"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">escape_sgml_chars</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="env.html"><img src="images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Rivet Tcl Commands and Variables</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="escape_shell_command.html"><img src="images/next.png" alt="Next"></a></td></tr></table></div><div class="refentry"><div class="refentry.separator"><hr></div><a name="escape_sgml_chars"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>escape_sgml_chars — escape special SGML characters in a string.</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis" style="width:80%"><div style="background:#ccccff ; margin:1ex ; padding:.4ex; padding-left: 0.8ex;   word-spacing:1ex "><span style="font-weight:bold ; font-family:monospace">::rivet::escape_sgml_chars</span>  ?<span style="font-family:monospace; font-weight: bold;">string</span>?</div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp55549840"></a><h2>Description</h2><p style="width:90%">
		    Scans through each character in the specified string looking
		    for any special (with respect to SGML, and hence HTML) characters
		    from the specified string, and returns the result.  
		    For example, the right angle bracket is escaped to the corrected
            ampersand gt symbol.
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