I'm using Python's xml.dom.minidom
to create an XML document. (Logical structure -> XML string, not the other way around.)
How do I make it escape the strings I provide so they won't be able to mess up the XML?
Do you mean you do something like this:
from xml.dom.minidom import Text, Element
t = Text()
e = Element('p')
t.data = '<bar><a/><baz spam="eggs"> & blabla &entity;</>'
e.appendChild(t)
Then you will get nicely escaped XML string:
>>> e.toxml()
'<p><bar><a/><baz spam="eggs"> & blabla &entity;</></p>'