How to eat HTML tags?

Is there any function that converts

<a href="test.php"/>

to

< href="test.php"/>

It would be helpful if all html charact开发者_JS百科ers were converted in the similar manner.

Is there a function or library to do this?

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var eaten:String = myString.replace(/&/g,'&').
                            replace(/</g,'&lt;').
                            replace(/>/g,'&gt;').
                            replace(/"/g,'&quot;');

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use HttpUtility

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It sounds like encodeURIComponent may be what you're after:

http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/package.html#encodeURIComponent%28%29