Form html entities not rendering as expected

<input type="text" value="x&lt;y" /> <textarea>x&lt;y</textarea>

The two above standard html input or textarea render html entities values as x<y

If I data-link input or textarea then these render as x<y (not expected).

val=“x<y” <input type="text" data-link="val" /> or <input type="text" data-link="{:val}" /> <textarea data-link="val"></textarea>

I tried using a converter using $.parseHTML()…but that returns an object which cannot be used.

Is this by design or am I simply missing something?

Is there anyway to render html entities like x<y without attaching a html editing widget (which is overkill here)?

Thanks

[BorisMoore]

The next update will include the above encode and unencode converters, to facilitate secure approaches to inserting and removing HTML data from users/the server. Marking this as feature request.

[BorisMoore]

This has been fixed in release v0.9.91.