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.TH "XMLentities.literalToEntity" "3kaya" "August 2014" "Kaya" "Kaya module reference"
.SH "NAME"
XMLentities::literalToEntity \- Convert literal characters to XML entities
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.B String literalToEntity(
\fIString text\fP
.B ")"
.SH "ARGUMENTS"
.PP
.B "text"
The text to convert
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
Return a String with all of the literal characters outside the strict 7-bit ASCII subset converted to XML entities. For example
\fBChar(220) \fP
would be replaced with
\fBÜ \fP

.PP
An Exception is thrown if the input string contains any literal characters not legal in XML documents (or are in the range 128-159, for which the behaviour is undefined).
.SH "AUTHORS"
Kaya standard library by Edwin Brady, Chris Morris and others (kaya@kayalang.org). For further information see http://kayalang.org/
.SH LICENSE
The Kaya standard library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (version 2.1 or any later version) as published by the Free Software Foundation.
.SH "RELATED"
.PD 0
.PP
.B "XMLentities.entityToLiteral"(3kaya)
.PD 0.4v