# askama_escape: HTML escaping, extracted from [Askama](https://askama.readthedocs.io/)
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Useful if you don't need a template engine, but if you need to escape a text for HTML or XML.
This implementation escapes `'"'`, `'&'`, `'\'',` `'<'` and `'>'`.
### Example
```rust
use askama_escape::{escape, escape_html, escape_html_char, Html};
assert_eq!(
escape("", Html).to_string(),
"<script>alert('Hello & bye!')</script>",
);
let mut dest = String::new();
escape_html(&mut dest, "").unwrap();
assert_eq!(
dest,
"<script>alert('Hello & bye!')</script>",
);
let mut dest = String::new();
escape_html_char(&mut dest, '&').unwrap();
assert_eq!(dest, "&");
```