bluemonday VS mxj

Compare bluemonday vs mxj and see what are their differences.

bluemonday

bluemonday: a fast golang HTML sanitizer (inspired by the OWASP Java HTML Sanitizer) to scrub user generated content of XSS (by microcosm-cc)

mxj

Decode / encode XML to/from map[string]interface{} (or JSON); extract values with dot-notation paths and wildcards. Replaces x2j and j2x packages. (by clbanning)
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bluemonday mxj
6 4
2,950 604
1.8% -
5.6 2.3
12 days ago 6 months ago
Go Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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bluemonday

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  • Sponsor the open source projects you depend on
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Apr 2023
    I'm on the receiving end of donations from sourcegraph for this. It's around $10 per month from that single donation and is for the only Go HTML santizer, which you use when you have user generated / untrusted input that you need to display as HTML. https://github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday

    For me the library has been good enough for my own use for a very very long time. I mostly neglect it unless there's some critical issue. I don't improve it at all as my time is better spent on my day job.

    I've often thought that there's room for improvement such as a DOM style santizer to validate input rather than just a SAX style sanitizer, perhaps formatting of output in addition to sanitising input, transformation rules, etc.

    When I got the donation I was surprised, first ever bit of support for open source software I'd written (as this was not written on company dime).

    Even at $10 per month it's motivating enough to think someone values it. If it accrues into something significant I may actually feel motivated to improve it.

    Interesting is that I'd regard this as successful by usage, it's used by virtually everything in the Go world that makes a website.

    Perhaps people don't know it exists though? And for that awareness thanks to thanks.dev

  • Does anyone know of an HTML parser that would allow me to manipulate the HMTL? Namely I'm interested in stripping all attributes from strings.
    2 projects | /r/golang | 16 Dec 2022
    For sanitizing html input at work we use https://github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday.
  • HTML Sanitizer API
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 May 2021
    My thoughts as a maintainer of a HTML sanitizer https://github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday

    1. Sanitizing is not difficult, defining the policy/config is difficult as your need is not someone else's. First glance of this proposal is that this needs a lot more work to cover people's needs. It's good enough, but will have a lot of edges and will need to evolve.

    2. If you allow a blocklist then people will use that by default as it's easier to say "I don't want " than it is to say "I only accept 3. Even if you sanitize something you should keep the raw input... you should store the raw input alongside the sanitized (in fact the sanitized is merely a cached version of the raw input having been sanitized). The reason for this is you will have issues you need to debug (and can't without the input) and you will have round-trip edits you should support (but it's not round-trippable when everything you return is different from the input, do not punish a user who pasted HTML thinking it was safe by then not allowing them to edit it out because you threw everything away). Additionally if you want to ever report on the input, i.e. topK values, and you've modified the input and not kept raw, then you can never do this.

    4. Provide a sane default. Most engineers simply do not know what is safe or not. I ship a policy in bluemonday for user generated content... it is safe by default and good enough for most people, and it can be taken and extended due to the way the API is structured so can cover other scenarios as a foundation policy.

    I think the proposal in general: specify a standard for a sanitization API has merit. But mostly it has merit if it specifies a standard for defining sanitization policies/configuration, allowing them to be portable across different languages and systems.

    The one I wrote is very heavily inspired by https://github.com/owasp/java-html-sanitizer which is the OWASP project one maintained by Mike Samuel. When I did my research before writing the Go one, this was far and away the best way to construct the policy/config and I already saw that this perspective was more valuable than whether it's a token based parser (GIGO but low memory) or a DOM builder (more memory)... no-one cares about the internals, they care about expressing what safe means to them.

mxj

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What are some alternatives?

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GoQuery - A little like that j-thing, only in Go.

inject

go-pkg-xmlx

jsonpath - JSONPath with dot notation generator for golang

toml - TOML parser for Golang with reflection.

sh - A shell parser, formatter, and interpreter with bash support; includes shfmt

bbConvert - Converter from BBCode to HTML

enca - Minimal cgo bindings for libenca

go-humanize - Go Humans! (formatters for units to human friendly sizes)

github_flavored_markdown - GitHub Flavored Markdown renderer with fenced code block highlighting, clickable header anchor links.

gotext - Go (Golang) GNU gettext utilities package