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Status Submitted
Workspace IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing
Categories Document Studio
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 16, 2026

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Build in an XML validator/encoder

I'm developing a rather complex template that traverses multiple levels of links. Customer said, "We want to use our own custom RequirementID instead of the DNG generated ID"...so I implement via Javascript. Text script output is "<strong>"+customRequirementID+": </strong>"+div with XHTML input and output checked in the script.

It started crashing. Because customer has a customRequirementID like "M&CD123".

The & is not XML compliant.

The thing is, if I had used a bold text container with the variable customRequirementID, another text container with a ": " in it, and then a last text container with <div> this would not have happened. Thus, RPE does have a built-in XML encoder to deal with this. (And for the record that's how I fixed this issue).

Would love it if there would be some functionality like string _sessionUtils.encodeStringForXML(text) or void _sessionUtils.stringNeedsEncoding(text) ... this would solve so many issues and make it much easier on template authors. As always, feel free to contact me for more detail.

Idea priority High
Needed By Yesterday (Let's go already!)
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