Thanks, Mitch. Yes, you're right, I can definitely do it in the calling
servlet, but I was wondering if there's an easy way to do it in
Postgres. I'll take care of it in Java, then :-).

Rgds,

Bret

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mitch Pirtle [mailto:mitch.pirtle@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 7:50 PM
> To: Schuhmacher, Bret
> Cc: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Ampersands in the output...
>
> Hi Bret,
>
> That sounds most likely served best at the application layer
> - for example, if your application is written in PHP, you can
> use the PHP
> function:
>
> http://us3.php.net/htmlentities
>
> You can also use regular expressions or PHP's str_replace to
> just replace all instances of '&' with '&'.
>
> Pretty sure other languages have their own methods as well.
>
> -- Mitch
>
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 16:22:41 -0800, Schuhmacher, Bret
> <Bret.Schuhmacher@aspect.com> wrote:
> > I'm using postgres to return business names via a function. In the
> > function I "xml-ify" the output by taking the name and wrap it with
> > start/end tags, as in "<name>name</name>" (there's a lot
> more to this
> > and I'm simplifying greatly). However, the problem is that some of
> > the names have "&" in them, like "Joes Bar & Grill", which really
> > should be escaped in XML.
> >
> > Any ideas how to escape those things before they get to the
> recipient
> > (i.e. my application, IE, Mozilla, etc.)? Is there a built-in
> > function or something I could make use of? I suppose I
> could write a
> > little more code in my function to look in the field and
> try to do a
> > string replace or something, but is that the most efficient method?
> >
> > Thanks in advance! :-)
> >
> > Bret
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