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attributeEncode(dataStr)
This function encodes all instances of the following in the argument string dataStr to numeric HTML entities (e.g. like ' '):
- left angle bracket
- right angle bracket
- ampersand
- (straight) double quote
- (straight) apostrophe
- line feed character (ASCII #10). This assists with OPML work as paragraph breaks are not allowed within XML attribute values.
For example, if the source dataStr is "this & that":
$MyString = attributeEncode("this & that") outputs "this & that".
An older export code equivalent was ^opmlEncode()^; the latter is deprecated in favour of the form ^value(attributeEncode(…))^.