Escaping special characters in XML

[Dotychczas]

Hello, i need to escape special characters from string to safely insert them into XML document (for example "&" to "&amp" etc). Is there any build in function to do that? 

[kristian dimitr]

Hello,

You can try using this API (XMLUtilJS): 

https://developer.servicenow.com/dev.do#!/reference/api/orlando/server_legacy/c_XMLUtilJSAPI

Regards!

Kristian

[Ankur Bawiskar]

Hi,

Are you using this in the outbound rest or soap message?

if yes then you can use this function to escape the XML characters

setStringParameter()

Regards
Ankur

[Ankur Bawiskar]

Hi,

setStringParameter() -> to set simple string values such as sys_created_by which won't have special characters

XML reserved characters in the value are converted to the equivalent escaped characters.

setStringParameterNoEscape() -> to set work notes etc where end user can enter special character and in case you want to send that special character as it is without escaping

It does not escape XML reserved characters.

XML reserved characters are: 

> 
<  
&
%  

Regards
Ankur

[Dotychczas]

I'm using it in flow designer. Getting it in script step and than populating xml message in rest step.