From 801b640dc67fe6bf003e50af3ff7d262140cf1c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Emil=20Stenstr=C3=B6m?= <emilstenstrm@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 17:51:18 +0300
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Testcommit to check everything is correctly setup.

---
 .gitignore | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 156ecc0..f648248 100755
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,10 +1,15 @@
 *.rock
-test.lua
-teste.lua
 
 #IntelliJ IDEA Files
 .idea
 *.iml
 
+#VS Code files
+launch.json
+
 #macOS
 .DS_Store
+
+#Debugging files 
+debugger.lua
+test.lua

From dcba5c715c3e635df1a93cbb6420c7c4ac12f33b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Emil=20Stenstr=C3=B6m?= <emilstenstrm@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 20:16:57 +0300
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Fixed tags with args and vals

---
 xml2lua.lua | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xml2lua.lua b/xml2lua.lua
index 813cf1e..b7c6c5b 100755
--- a/xml2lua.lua
+++ b/xml2lua.lua
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ end
 
 function xml2lua.parseTableToXml(obj, tagName, level)
   if (tagName ~= '_attr') then
-    if (type(obj) == 'table') then
+    if (type(obj) == 'table' and (#obj ~= 1 or type(obj[1]) == 'table')) then
       if (xml2lua.isChildArray(obj)) then
         for _, value in pairs(obj) do
           xml2lua.parseTableToXml(value, tagName, level)
@@ -252,10 +252,14 @@ function xml2lua.parseTableToXml(obj, tagName, level)
         xml2lua.endTag(tagName, level)
       end
     else
-      xml2lua.addTagValueAttr(tagName, obj, nil, level)
+      if type(obj) == 'table' then
+        xml2lua.addTagValueAttr(tagName, obj[1], obj._attr, level)
+      else
+        xml2lua.addTagValueAttr(tagName, obj, nil, level)
+      end
     end
   end
-    end
+end
 
 ---Converts a Lua table to a XML String representation.
 --@param tb Table to be converted to XML

From 965f04669f90fc05a30d3989af56dd5089198d16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Emil=20Stenstr=C3=B6m?= <emil.stenstrom@alcom.ax>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:51:04 +0300
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Added subtitution for disallowed characters

---
 xml2lua.lua | 16 ++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xml2lua.lua b/xml2lua.lua
index b7c6c5b..71b98d0 100755
--- a/xml2lua.lua
+++ b/xml2lua.lua
@@ -140,6 +140,18 @@ function xml2lua.loadFile(xmlFilePath)
     error(e)
 end
 
+---Checks the value for forbidden characters and escapes them
+--@param value string for checking and correcting
+--@return a XML-compliant string
+local function escapeXmlChar(value)
+  value = string.gsub(value, "&", "&amp;")
+  value = string.gsub(value, "<", "&lt;")
+  value = string.gsub(value, ">", "&gt;")
+  value = string.gsub(value, "'", "&apos;")
+  value = string.gsub(value, "\"", "&quot;")
+  return value
+end
+
 ---Gets an _attr element from a table that represents the attributes of an XML tag,
 --and generates a XML String representing the attibutes to be inserted
 --into the openning tag of the XML
@@ -151,7 +163,7 @@ local function attrToXml(attrTable)
   attrTable = attrTable or {}
 
   for k, v in pairs(attrTable) do
-      s = s .. " " .. k .. "=" .. '"' .. v .. '"'
+      s = s .. " " .. k .. "=" .. '"' .. escapeXmlChar(v) .. '"'
   end
   return s
 end
@@ -198,7 +210,7 @@ function xml2lua.addTagValueAttr(tagName, tagValue, attrTable, level)
   if (tagValue == '') then
     table.insert(xml2lua.xmltb, spaces .. '<' .. tagName .. attrStr .. '/>')
   else
-    table.insert(xml2lua.xmltb, spaces .. '<' .. tagName .. attrStr .. '>' .. tostring(tagValue) .. '</' .. tagName .. '>')
+    table.insert(xml2lua.xmltb, spaces .. '<' .. tagName .. attrStr .. '>' .. escapeXmlChar(tostring(tagValue)) .. '</' .. tagName .. '>')
   end
 end