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While fixing a SharpMUSH bug (MXP clients shown literal <a xch_cmd=…>; SharpMUSH/SharpMUSH#1195), several workarounds turned out to be things this library should own. Each consumer was re-implementing them, or not implementing them at all:

  • Unchecked HtmlMarkup. HtmlMarkup writes its tag name and attribute string unchecked. SharpMUSH had to write its own attribute parser, allowlist and encoder to keep softcode from injecting script into the web portal.
  • MXP secure-line prefix. MXP output does nothing without ESC[1z on every line, and SharpMUSH prefixed lines itself after rendering.
  • Docs taught the wrong link. The guides showed HtmlMarkup.Create("send", …) as a portable link. <send> is MXP's command link, and a Pueblo client prints it as text.

What's added (all additive; package validation against 2.1.0 passes)

MarkupString.Html

  • HtmlAttribute(Name, Value), which writes name="value" with the value encoded. Only & " < > are encoded; accented text is left alone.
  • HtmlMarkup.Tag(name, params attributes), which checks the tag and attribute names.
  • IsValidTagName and IsValidAttributeName.
  • TryParseAttributes, which decodes values the way a client would, so &#106;avascript: is checked as javascript:.
  • HtmlTagPolicy (its sets are copied case-insensitive, whatever comparer the caller's set had): settings for allowed tags, allowed attributes and address-bearing attributes, plus what happens on a bad attribute (DropAttribute / DropAllAttributes). It has TryCreate and Apply. It is machinery, not a security posture: WellFormed allows any well-formed tag, address checking stays off until a consumer names the attributes to check (their own list, or the published AddressAttributes), and a policy is a record, so with narrows one to whatever the application considers safe. What is safe in a given medium is the consumer's call, not this library's.
  • WithHtml(HtmlTagPolicy) and HtmlTagEmitter(format, policy). Every tag rendered in Html is held to the policy as it's written; a refused tag leaves its body unwrapped. Pueblo and MXP output is unchanged unless a policy is registered for them too.

MarkupString

  • ILineFramer, plus MarkupRegistry.With(ILineFramer) and FindLineFramer. It writes a prefix before every line that has content. It has its own slot beside IFormatFramer, so it doesn't displace a document framer.
  • The render path is unchanged when no line framer is registered.
  • MxpSecureLineFramer and MarkupRegistry.WithMxpSecureLines(). They live in core rather than the Ansi package because they frame the Mxp format: tags written by HtmlMarkup need the line opened just as much as AnsiMarkup's links do.
  • Opt-in: the prefix belongs on the registry that renders for a connection, not on the one used for tests, logs and previews.
  • Negotiating MXP and starting MXP mode stay with the telnet layer (TelnetNegotiationCore's MXPProtocol); this only frames the text sent afterwards.

Docs

  • The guides and READMEs build links with LinkKind.Command.
  • The formats guide gains a Pueblo-vs-MXP table, a section on line framers, and a section on untrusted tags.
  • Fixed the stale claim that TextEncoding.Html escapes ".
  • CHANGELOG updated.

Verification

  • 605/605 tests pass in Release, including new HtmlTagPolicyTests and MxpSecureLineFramerTests.
  • dotnet pack package validation against 2.1.0 is clean.
  • The AOT smoke publish has no IL warnings and the native binary runs.

Follow-up (3.0, not in this PR)

  • Move links out of AnsiMarkup into a core LinkMarkup, carrying UrlSafety and MXP multi-command menus with it.
  • Once links are their own markup, add per-dialect translation for HtmlMarkup links.

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  • New Features

    • Added validated HTML tag and attribute construction with safe encoding.
    • Added configurable HTML policies for allowed tags, attributes, and URLs.
    • Added policy enforcement when rendering HTML, including browser-safe presets.
    • Added optional secure MXP line framing for content-bearing lines.
    • Added extensible line-framer registration and lookup.
  • Documentation

    • Expanded guidance for command links, HTML safety, format-specific output, and secure MXP lines.
    • Clarified HTML escaping and raw-tag usage.

Consumers were each re-implementing what the library should own:

- HtmlMarkup took a raw tag name and attribute string and wrote both
  unchecked. HtmlMarkup.Tag builds one from a checked name and encoded
  HtmlAttributes; TryParseAttributes reads a raw string with values decoded
  as a client reads them; HtmlTagPolicy (BrowserSafe, WellFormed, or your
  own via `with`) keeps only the tags and attributes it allows, with
  addresses checked against UrlSafety and refused if they hide whitespace.
- WithHtml(policy) / HtmlTagEmitter(format, policy) holds every tag rendered
  in Html to the policy as it is written, so deserialised or unchecked
  markup cannot reach a browser unfiltered. Pueblo and MXP are unchanged.
- MXP output needs ESC[1z on every line or the client prints the tags; each
  consumer was prefixing lines itself. ILineFramer is a per-line framer slot
  in the registry, and MxpSecureLineFramer / WithMxpSecureLines() supplies
  MXP's, opt-in for the registry that renders for a connection.

The guides presented HtmlMarkup.Create("send", ...) as a portable link.
<send> is MXP's command link and a Pueblo client prints it; they now build
links with LinkKind.Command, and the formats guide documents how Pueblo and
MXP differ. It also no longer claims TextEncoding.Html escapes quotes.

All additive; package validation against 2.1.0 passes.

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The change adds checked HTML construction, configurable HTML tag policies, policy-aware rendering, and opt-in MXP secure-line framing. It also updates portable link examples and related documentation.

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Markup output safeguards and framing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Checked HTML construction and policy contracts
MarkupString.Html/HtmlAttribute.cs, MarkupString.Html/HtmlMarkup.cs, MarkupString.Html/HtmlTagPolicy.cs, MarkupString.Html/PublicAPI.Unshipped.txt
Adds encoded HTML attributes, tag and attribute-name validation, raw attribute parsing, configurable policies, URL checks, and policy presets.
HTML policy rendering and validation
MarkupString.Html/Emitters/HtmlTagEmitter.cs, MarkupString.Html/HtmlRegistration.cs, MarkupString.Tests/Html/HtmlTagPolicyTests.cs, MarkupString.Html/README.md, docs/formats.md
Applies policies during HTML emission and tests accepted, rejected, malformed, and unsafe markup. Pueblo and MXP output remain unchanged unless separately configured.
Line-framer registry and rendering path
MarkupString/ILineFramer.cs, MarkupString/MarkupRegistry.cs, MarkupString/MarkupTextRenderer.cs, MarkupString/PublicAPI.Unshipped.txt
Adds line-framer registration and lookup. Buffered rendering prefixes eligible lines while preserving document preambles, epilogues, and newline content.
Secure MXP framing and documentation
MarkupString/MxpSecureLineFramer.cs, MarkupString.Tests/MxpSecureLineFramerTests.cs, MarkupString/README.md, MarkupString.Ansi/README.md, README.md, docs/getting-started.md, docs/formats.md, CHANGELOG.md
Adds opt-in ESC[1z prefixes for nonempty MXP lines and documents portable command links, format differences, and line-framer behavior.

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HTML policy rendering

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant HtmlTagEmitter
  participant HtmlTagPolicy
  participant HtmlMarkup
  Caller->>HtmlTagEmitter: Emit unchecked markup
  HtmlTagEmitter->>HtmlTagPolicy: Apply policy
  HtmlTagPolicy->>HtmlMarkup: Return accepted markup or rejection
  HtmlTagEmitter-->>Caller: Write accepted tag or body only
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Secure MXP line rendering

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant MarkupTextRenderer
  participant MarkupRegistry
  participant MxpSecureLineFramer
  Caller->>MarkupTextRenderer: Render with registry
  MarkupTextRenderer->>MarkupRegistry: FindLineFramer(Mxp)
  MarkupRegistry-->>MarkupTextRenderer: Return secure line framer
  MarkupTextRenderer->>MxpSecureLineFramer: WriteLineStart(output)
  MxpSecureLineFramer-->>MarkupTextRenderer: Write ESC[1z
  MarkupTextRenderer-->>Caller: Return framed MXP output
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In `@MarkupString.Html/HtmlTagPolicy.cs`:
- Line 90: Update the tag and attribute policy checks to use ordinal
case-insensitive matching independently of the comparers configured on
AllowedTags, AllowedAttributes, and UrlAttributes. In the tag validation and
Allows(HtmlAttribute) paths, replace direct set membership checks with a shared
ContainsIgnoringCase helper that preserves fast exact matches and performs
StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase fallback.

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- Around line 106-107: Update the rendering flow around RenderUnframedLines and
WriteFramedLines so the IFormatFramer preamble is written directly before
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- Line 40: Update the README package-table description for MarkupString.Html to
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MxpSecureLineFramer frames the Mxp format, whichever package wrote the tags
(HtmlMarkup's as much as AnsiMarkup's links), so it and WithMxpSecureLines()
belong to the core package beside ILineFramer, not to MarkupString.Ansi.

HtmlTagPolicy's allowed-tag and -attribute sets were case-insensitive only if
the caller built them that way; a plain HashSet made a policy silently
case-sensitive. The init accessors now copy into an OrdinalIgnoreCase
FrozenSet.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…stylesheet claim

A line framer prefixed the IFormatFramer preamble as if it were the first
line, and would prefix an epilogue that began a line. The preamble and
epilogue are now written around the framed body, so a document framer wraps
the line framing: <pre>ESC[1z..., not ESC[1z<pre>....

The README and the MarkupString.Html package description credited it with
the ms-* stylesheet, which is MarkupString.Ansi's AnsiCss.

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All three CodeRabbit findings are addressed and their threads resolved (case-insensitive policy sets, document framing wrapping line framing, and the stylesheet credit).

CodeRabbit's pre-merge docstring coverage warning (55%) counts private helpers and test methods in the diff. Every new public member carries XML docs, and the PublicApiAnalyzers and package-validation gates pass, so no change was made for it.

BrowserSafe declared which tags and attributes are safe in a browser, which
is the consuming application's decision, not this library's. Removed, and
address checking is now off until a consumer names the attributes to check:
AddressAttributes (was DefaultUrlAttributes) is published as the list HTML
gives an address to, and nothing applies it on its own.

WellFormed remains the starting point to narrow with `with`, and the README
carries the worked example a consumer would write.

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