A Note To System Integrators

Technically speaking, the user input is written as it is to the database and it is first "washed" when presenting it. Thus, the template developer does not need to worry about escaping what comes from Forum, such as outputting the body text with ${posting.body}.

Similarly, system integrators can know that the posting data in the database can be full XML, HTML or whatever, allowing for easy import from 3rd party systems as well as integrating with other export channels (mobile devices, tablets, PDFs++) which may want to use more markup elements than you want on the web site.