Escaping special characters in XML

Dotychczas
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‎05-31-2021 11:36 PM

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? 

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Ankur Bawiskar
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In response to Dotychczas

‎06-01-2021 12:12 AM

Hi,

So did you check this method which I mentioned

setStringParameter()

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Dotychczas
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In response to Ankur Bawiskar

‎06-01-2021 12:15 AM

I think that this method is meant to be use in outbound rest message. I don't know how to implement it in rest step in flow designer.

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Ankur Bawiskar
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‎06-01-2021 12:25 AM

Hi,

are you picking some field value which contains HTML string?

Can you share some more details for that REST Step you are using with some screenshot

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Dotychczas
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In response to Ankur Bawiskar

‎06-01-2021 01:04 AM

in flow designer i created action which does two things: 1st it fetch incident record in script step and assigning it fields values to script outputs and 2nd in rest step in request body there is xml template and i just take fetched data and put it in correct xml tags. To be honest there is a lot of sensitive data in this rest step so screen shot is not a good idea. I tried to call script include 

  var xmlUtils = new XMLUtilJS();
gs.info(xmlUtils.escapeForXMLText("test&test"));

 

but I somehow can't get to escapeForXMLText method

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