VelocityGenerator and string escaping

[Leszek Gawron <lg...@mobilebox.pl>]

I found VelocityGenerator hadly usable because of lack of value 
escaping. Example:

flow.js:
var elem = "<test>";
cocoon.sendPage( "view.vm", { elem: elem } );

view.vm:
<root>$elem</root>

this unfortunatelly produces:
<root><elem></root>
which is an invalid xml

Has anyone overcome this problem? I could write simple string encoder 
but it surely wouldn't handle entities nicely and wouldn't be as 
performant as some tested OS solution.

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Leszek Gawron                                      lgawron@mobilebox.pl