escape function
replace <, >, &, ' and " with HTML entities
Implementation
String escape(String str) {
return (str
.replaceAll( RegExp(r'&'), '&')
.replaceAll( RegExp(r'"'), '"')
.replaceAll( RegExp(r"'"), ''')
.replaceAll( RegExp(r'<'), '<')
.replaceAll( RegExp(r'>'), '>'));
}