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Native Security and Data Integrity Features

The idea here is to provide some basic security features that one would desire on all pages and make them automatic. This includes such things as helping to ensure data integrity and program flow.

One big concern with going through HTML is handling proper escaping and unescaping so that the user sees the proper value and the program sees the proper data. That is, if the user puts in &lt;, we want the user and data to (usually) see &lt; and not `$<$.'