XML escaping problem in WWN 264

[Francois Gouget]

In WWN 264 there's the following:

<rant>
...
</rant>

But it does not get through in the HTML page because it's getting 
transformed into <rant>...</rant> which the browser is correctly 
ignoring. We've had this problem before but I don't remember what the 
fix is... Do you?


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[Paul Millar]

Would it not be just "<rant>" ?

XML -> HTML renders this to "<rant>", which the browser will render as 
"<rant>".

HTH,

Paul.

On Tuesday 08 Mar 2005 10:26, Francois Gouget wrote:
> In WWN 264 there's the following:
>
> <rant>
> ...
> </rant>
>
> But it does not get through in the HTML page because it's getting
> transformed into <rant>...</rant> which the browser is correctly
> ignoring. We've had this problem before but I don't remember what the
> fix is... Do you?

[Brian Vincent]

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 10:38:22 +0000, Paul Millar
<p.millar(a)physics.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
> Would it not be just "&lt;rant&gt;" ?
>
> XML -> HTML renders this to "<rant>", which the browser will render as
> "<rant>".

No.. that didn't work.  Good tip though.

Newman - any ideas?  Maybe < rant >?  I think that
would be acceptable if it worked.

While we're on the the HTML topic, anyone want to take a quick stab at
updating the stylesheet to properly render <DL><DT><DD> tags within
quotes?  Looks like we just need some indenting.  Example:
http://www.winehq.com/?issue=264#Wine%20Status

-Brian

[Jeremy Newman]

On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 08:43 -0700, Brian Vincent wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 10:38:22 +0000, Paul Millar
> <p.millar(a)physics.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Would it not be just "&lt;rant&gt;" ?
> >
> > XML -> HTML renders this to "<rant>", which the browser will render as
> > "<rant>".
>
> No.. that didn't work.  Good tip though.
>
> Newman - any ideas?  Maybe < rant >?  I think that
> would be acceptable if it worked.

&lt;rant&gt; is the correct way to get through the parser. I
have added some code to the parser that will pass through unknown html
tags as plain text. In other words <rant> should get converted to
<rant> automatically. The downside is that in this case the tags
need to be properly nested in other tags. Otherwise, use the longer
form.
> While we're on the the HTML topic, anyone want to take a quick stab at
> updating the stylesheet to properly render <DL><DT><DD> tags within
> quotes?  Looks like we just need some indenting.  Example:
> http://www.winehq.com/?issue=264#Wine%20Status

This should indent properly now. Seems <dl> does not inherit the
padding-left used by the indent class in the <p> tag. I coded a work
around. Someone can fill me in if there is a better way to do this.

[Shachar Shemesh]

Francois Gouget wrote:
> In WWN 264 there's the following:
>
> <rant>
> ...
> </rant>
>
> But it does not get through in the HTML page because it's getting 
> transformed into <rant>...</rant> which the browser is correctly 
> ignoring. We've had this problem before but I don't remember what the 
> fix is... Do you?

You probably need to turn the "&" into "&", so you would get:
&lt;rant&gt;

Then again, it is probably right to do it in the XML ->HTML converter, 
and not in the XML itself. I.e. - the XML->HTML converter needs to 
transform an inline "<" into < again.

          Shachar

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