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I'm passing Data using JSON to iPhone and iPad. One Field of Data is HTML.

The problem is the encoding.

Here's what I get back:

> "GadgetHTML": "<strong>Hello</strong>
> from Catworld<br />\n<img alt=\"\"
> src=\"http://www.iconarchive.com/icons/fasticon/ifunny/128/dog-icon.png\"
> />",

The \ are killing me. The \n does not help.

Any good way to do this?

Any JSON to HTML Cleaning Functions? Encoding?

(There must be something better than manually removing )

Thanks

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It is HTML, it is just JSON encoded. Use a standard JSON parser and the string you get back will have the escape characters handled for you…

… or are you trying to write your own JSON parser? (Probably not a good idea, but if you really want to reinvent the wheel then the spec is at http://json.org (and the ECMA-262 specification would probably help you for the grammar)).

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Hi David, Thanks. We are in fact already using the Google JSON Framework...So I thought It should handle the escaping automatically. Seems not the case. Is there some framework Flag I am missing? Some specific 'CleanJSON' call? thx
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The service that sends the JSON Block should escape all back slashes with another backslash.

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That would change alt\" into alt=\\" so the data would include a ` character, then there would be a "` character which (as it wouldn't be escaped any longer) would terminate the string, so the next character would invalidate the JSON.
Yeah - escaping needed for the wire. Just not after landing on client. But thanks

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