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+"""This is a copy of the htmlEncode function in Webware.
+
+
+@@TR: It implemented more efficiently.
+
+"""
+htmlCodes = [
+    ['&', '&'],
+    ['<', '&lt;'],
+    ['>', '&gt;'],
+    ['"', '&quot;'],
+]
+htmlCodesReversed = htmlCodes[:]
+htmlCodesReversed.reverse()
+
+def htmlEncode(s, codes=htmlCodes):
+    """ Returns the HTML encoded version of the given string. This is useful to
+    display a plain ASCII text string on a web page."""
+    for code in codes:
+        s = s.replace(code[0], code[1])
+    return s