Better way to escape braces in E4X?

Question

I have some XML I'm generating with {} characters, which are of course used for substitution.

It's hard to find any info on this: MDC is usually great documentation, but it doesn't mention anything about how to put brace literals in an E4X expression.

I finally found someone who had an answer: escape { } as { }. But it's really awkward to use. Is there any other way?

Your XML structure sounds rather broken if you have tag/attribute names that are to be substituted... — poke, Mar 20 '11 at 02:12
poke: I'm not sure why that's "broken", but I also never said that's what I'm doing. E4X allows brace substitution basically anywhere. — Ken, Mar 20 '11 at 02:35
Then could you maybe show an example of what you are trying to do? — poke, Mar 20 '11 at 15:02
He's trying to do something like this: `var xml:XML = {this text is in braces};` which doesn't work. — Chris Burt-Brown, Mar 21 '11 at 14:18

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 21 '11 at 14:19

1

Perhaps the cleanest method I can see is to substitute the braces in!

var text:String = "some {text} with {braces}";
var xml:XML = <something>{text}</something>;

answered Mar 21 '11 at 14:19

Chris Burt-Brown

2,717
1
16
16

This is so simple I can't believe I didn't think of it! Nice. – Ken Mar 23 '11 at 05:36

Better way to escape braces in E4X?

1 Answers1