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---
title: transform.XMLEscape
description: Returns the given string, removing disallowed characters then escaping the result to its XML equivalent.
categories: []
keywords: []
action:
aliases: []
related: []
returnType: string
signatures: [transform.XMLEscape INPUT]
---
{{< new-in 0.121.0 >}}
The `transform.XMLEscape` function removes [disallowed characters] as defined in the XML specification, then escapes the result by replacing the following characters with [HTML entities]:
- `"` → `"`
- `'` → `'`
- `&` → `&`
- `<` → `<`
- `>` → `>`
- `\t` → `	`
- `\n` → `
`
- `\r` → `
`
For example:
```go-html-template
{{ transform.XMLEscape "<p>abc</p>" }} → <p>abc</p>
```
When using `transform.XMLEscape` in a template rendered by Go's [html/template] package, declare the string to be safe HTML to avoid double escaping. For example, in an RSS template:
{{< code file="layouts/_default/rss.xml" >}}
<description>{{ .Summary | transform.XMLEscape | safeHTML }}</description>
{{< /code >}}
[disallowed characters]: https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#charsets
[html entities]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-us/docs/glossary/entity
[html/template]: https://pkg.go.dev/html/template
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