felixrieseberg/sanitize-xml-string — explained in plain English
Analysis updated 2026-07-17 · repo last pushed 2017-10-10
Strip invalid characters from a string before writing it into an XML file.
Validate whether a string is already safe for XML without modifying it.
Clean up user-generated text or web content before exporting database records to XML.
Prevent XML export crashes caused by emoji or reserved Unicode characters.
| felixrieseberg/sanitize-xml-string | anuj-kumary/your-github-contributions | arashthr/hugo-flow | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Language | TypeScript | TypeScript | TypeScript |
| Last pushed | 2017-10-10 | 2026-06-07 | — |
| Maintenance | Dormant | Maintained | — |
| Setup difficulty | easy | moderate | moderate |
| Complexity | 2/5 | 2/5 | 3/5 |
| Audience | developer | developer | developer |
Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.
Requires a modern JS environment (ES6 regex 'u' flag) or emoji handling may be incorrect.
This is a small utility that cleans up text before you use it in XML files. XML is a standard format for storing and exchanging data, but it has strict rules about which characters are allowed. Not all Unicode characters, including some emoji and special symbols, are valid in XML. This tool takes a messy string and removes or fixes any characters that would break an XML file. The module gives you two functions to work with: sanitize, which strips out invalid characters and returns a clean string ready for XML, and validate, which checks whether a string is already valid without changing it. Both functions follow the official XML standard rules about which characters are safe to use. Essentially, it filters out problematic characters like certain control codes and reserved Unicode blocks that XML doesn't allow. You'd use this if you're building software that generates or processes XML data and accepts user input or external strings. For example, if you're exporting database records to XML format, or accepting form submissions that need to be stored in an XML file, you'd run the strings through this sanitizer first to avoid crashes or corruption. It's especially useful when dealing with content from the web or user-generated text, which might include emoji, special symbols, or other characters that look fine in regular text but aren't technically valid in XML. One thing to note: the module relies on a relatively modern JavaScript feature (the u flag for regular expressions) to properly handle emoji and multi-character Unicode symbols. If you're running this in an older environment that doesn't support ES6, it might incorrectly flag some valid characters as invalid and remove them. For most modern projects, this isn't a concern.
A small TypeScript utility that strips or validates characters in a string so it's safe to put into an XML file.
Mainly TypeScript. The stack also includes TypeScript, JavaScript.
Dormant — no commits in 2+ years (last push 2017-10-10).
Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.
Mainly developer.
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