[cl-who-devel] Exposing String Escape Functions

[Volkan YAZICI]

Hi,

In a parser I'm working on, trying to convert hand-written documents
into XHTML form. And for this purpose using CL-WHO integrated within
META-SEXP. Because of character-by-character parsing, I need to escape
unrecognized atoms on-the-fly. At the moment, I'm using below method.

  (elt
   (cl-who:escape-string
    (make-string 1 :initial-element character-needs-escaping))
   0)

Yep, quite nasty code piece to escape a single character. Therefore,
I'd ask if it'd be possible to expose the character escaping
routines. (If you approve the proposal, I'm volunteered to send a
patch.)


Regards.