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+// Copyright Yahoo. Licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license. See LICENSE in the project root.
+#pragma once
+
+#include <vespa/vespalib/stllike/asciistream.h>
+#include <vespa/vespalib/stllike/string.h>
+#include <iosfwd>
+
+namespace vespalib {
+
+/**
+ * Returns input string but where the following characters are escaped:
+ *   - all control chars < char value 32
+ *   - <, >, &, " and '
+ */
+[[nodiscard]] vespalib::string xml_attribute_escaped(vespalib::stringref s);
+
+/**
+ * Returns input string but where the following characters are escaped:
+ *   - all control chars < char value 32, _except_ linebreak
+ *   - <, > and &
+ */
+[[nodiscard]] vespalib::string xml_content_escaped(vespalib::stringref s);
+void write_xml_content_escaped(vespalib::asciistream& out, vespalib::stringref s);
+void write_xml_content_escaped(std::ostream& out, vespalib::stringref s);
+
+}