Need to escape illegal characters in PRC notation about libhsplasma HOT 6 CLOSED

Also, CDATA blocks can not be used for attributes.

However, this should not be fixed on the side of the objects, but within pfPrcHelper.

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Do we care if PRC is actually valid XML? It is XML-like, but without pulling in a full XML library trying to get all the quirks of that standard implemented seems like a lot of effort for little to no gain. libHSPlasma is a much better interface for operating on Plasma data than parsing PRC using an XML tool.

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@zrax your input would be awesome here

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If you're using the libHSPlasma interface to operate, then PRC probably doesn't concern you, but if you are using PRCs there's a good chance that a reasonable expectation of being well-formed is desirable.

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That's kind of my point - It is my understanding that PRC is intended as a human-readable (NOT machine-readable) format. If you need a machine to read Plasma data, don't parse PRC. Use libHSPlasma.

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What branan says is true -- HOWEVER, it is also possible that, as PRC stands now, the PRC parser could still itself be broken by quotes. Therefore, I'm making a quick change to use entities for the usual chars.

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