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Sanitize HTML(XSS checking)
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sanitize.py
from html5lib import html5parser
from html5lib import sanitizer
_HTML_PARSER = html5parser.HTMLParser(tokenizer=sanitizer.HTMLSanitizer)
def Sanitize(text):
"""Sanitizes given text to remove XSS vulnerabilities.
Args:
text: The text to sanitize.
Returns:
The sanitized string.
"""
return ''.join((
token.toxml() for token in _HTML_PARSER.parseFragment(text).childNodes))
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