python - Escaping strings for use in XML

Question

I'm using Python's xml.dom.minidom to create an XML document. (Logical structure -> XML string, not the other way around.)

How do I make it escape the strings I provide so they won't be able to mess up the XML?

Answer 1

Something like this?

>>> from xml.sax.saxutils import escape
>>> escape("< & >")   
'&lt; &amp; &gt;'