Hi Cocoon devs,
this issue has already been discussed several times, e.g. [1], but AFAIK
has not been resolved yet.
The XHTMLSerializer, or, more specifically, the XHMLEncoder, from the
serializers block in Cocoon 2.1.x escapes all characters with a
corresponding HTML 4.0 character entity reference into this entity
reference. This causes issues with inline JavaScript, since e.g. the
double quotes are transformed to " which causes a JavaScript
parsing error. Another minor negative effect is the increased document size.
If I understand the W3C correctly, see e.g. [2], the recommended
approach is to use the character set of the encoding as far as possible,
and use escapes only in exceptional circumstances. I didn't find a
reason why the XHTMLSerializer uses escapes, but I suspect that it is
related to browser compatibility issues.
Do you think it would make sense to make this behaviour configurable, e.g.
<use-entities>true|false</use-entities>
Does the XHTMLSerializer in Cocoon 2.2 show a different behaviour?
TIA for any comments!
-- Andreas
[1]
http://www.nabble.com/Problem-with-XHTMLSerializers-to1311360.html#a1311360
[2] http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc/
--
Andreas Hartmann, CTO
BeCompany GmbH
http://www.becompany.ch
Tel.: +41 (0) 43 818 57 01
