Data Set - Encode Attribute Value?

Question

I'm using an HTML data set with an active region. Some of the
data is to be used as attribute values (e.g. as the "value" of an
"input" tag), and some of the data is to be used within the HTML of
the document (but should not be rendered as HTML). What is the best
way (recommended practice) for encoding the data for these uses? In
other words, does the spry framework provide such utilities? Is
there a way to pull the data out of the data set already encoded
for use as an attribute value? Or with >, <, and &
properly encoded for use in HTML?

Answer 1

I guess you are also using SpryData.js in the same page.
SpryData.js has a function called
Spry.Utils.encodeEntities(string);
It will encode your Entities for you and returns the changed
string. If you data is already encoded before you brought it in to
the SpryDataset, make sure you didnt set the columnType to html.
If not you can do something like this
<script type="text/javascript">
function encodeEntities(region, lookupFunc)
return
Spry.Utils.encodeEntities(lookupFunc("{dsProducts::desc}"));
</script>
<div spry:region="dsProducts">
<ul spry:repeatchildren="dsProducts">
<li>{name} - {function::encodeEntities}</li>
</ul>
</div>