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Diffstat (limited to 'src/pkg/html')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/pkg/html/escape.go | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/pkg/html/escape.go b/src/pkg/html/escape.go index fee771a578..24cb7af852 100644 --- a/src/pkg/html/escape.go +++ b/src/pkg/html/escape.go @@ -210,13 +210,15 @@ func escape(w writer, s string) error { case '&': esc = "&" case '\'': - esc = "'" + // "'" is shorter than "'" and apos was not in HTML until HTML5. + esc = "'" case '<': esc = "<" case '>': esc = ">" case '"': - esc = """ + // """ is shorter than """. + esc = """ default: panic("unrecognized escape character") } @@ -231,7 +233,7 @@ func escape(w writer, s string) error { } // EscapeString escapes special characters like "<" to become "<". It -// escapes only five such characters: amp, apos, lt, gt and quot. +// escapes only five such characters: <, >, &, ' and ". // UnescapeString(EscapeString(s)) == s always holds, but the converse isn't // always true. func EscapeString(s string) string { |