SANITIZE

Sanitizes text input. Can strip markdown code blocks, normalize Unicode characters (quotes, dashes, spaces), and validate/repair XML content before forwarding the result to the flow context.

At a glance

• Category Utils
• Version: 1.0.12
• Applications: all
• Scope: all

Config Options

Name	Description	Default	Required	Resolved	Constraints	Conditional Rules
stripMarkdown	If true, removes markdown code blocks (...) from the input before further processing.	false	false	false	None	None
validateAndRepairXml	If true, attempts to validate and repair XML fragments found in the input.	false	false	false	None	None
normalizeCharacters	If true, normalizes Unicode characters to their standard equivalents (e.g., curly quotes to straight quotes, various dashes to hyphens, non-breaking spaces to regular spaces). This ensures consistency between AI responses and input text.	false	false	false	None	None

Inputs

Type	Description	Default	Required	Resolved
text	Text input to sanitize	None	true	false

Outputs

Type	Description	Optional
text	Sanitized text output after processing.	false

Examples

Sanitize by stripping markdown code blocks

- step: SANITIZE
  stripMarkdown: true

Sanitize and validate/repair XML

- step: SANITIZE
  validateAndRepairXml: true

Normalize Unicode characters

- step: SANITIZE
  normalizeCharacters: true

Combined sanitization

- step: SANITIZE
  stripMarkdown: true
  normalizeCharacters: true
  validateAndRepairXml: true

See Also

General Resources:

• Step Library Overview
• Configuration Basics
• Examples