docutils-ts/dist/src/xml-escape.js

Port of the Python Docutils library to TypeScript

export function xmlescape(string, ignore) {
    var pattern;
    const map = {
        '>': '>',
        '<': '&lt;',
        "'": '&apos;',
        '"': '&quot;',
        '&': '&amp;'
    };
    if (string === null || string === undefined)
        throw new Error('xmlescape: string is null or undefined');
    ignore = (ignore || '').replace(/[^&"<>\']/g, '');
    pattern = '([&"<>\'])'.replace(new RegExp('[' + ignore + ']', 'g'), '');
    return string.replace(new RegExp(pattern, 'g'), function (str, item) {
        return map[item];
    });
}
;