According to Patrick Jennings:
> > > This behaviour is odd on two levels:
> > >
> > > 1) It not only replaces the <, > and " characters with entities
> >
> > Well, the only explanation I can see is that it's still doing the SGML
> > encoding on your meta description. Are you sure you are using the
> > patched htsearch, and not an older one? If you added the if() statement
> > as I suggested, did you perhaps forget the "!"?
>
> Yep. That was my own response, so I double checked, re-compiled,
> re-ran...same result.
>
> My initial attempt, before receiving your email, was to comment the SGML
> call out altogether, also with the same result.
>
> The release for Display.cc is:
>
> #if RELEASE
> static char RCSid[] = "$Id: Display.cc,v 1.54.2.27 2000/02/17 16:46:25
> grdetil Exp $";
> #endif
Yes, that's the release ID for ht://Dig 3.1.5's Display.cc source.
At least that much is correct. You say "re-compiled, re-ran...",
but not re-installed. How are you re-running htsearch? Are you
running it straight from the source tree, at the command line?
(e.g. htsearch/htsearch "words=...") If not, then you're almost certainly
still running the old one. I can't see any other explanation for the
SGML encoding still occurring.
> Perhaps it has something to do with how HTML.cc treats META values? The
> changes you've specified below change this behaviour.
>
> > When HTML.cc finds the start of a tag (the "<" character), it searches
> > for the next ">" which it takes as the ending. That next ">" is inside
> > the content of your meta tag. It's a violation of the HTML standard
> > to embed a ">" (or a "<" for that matter) inside an HTML tag, so your
> > <META NAME="htdig-description" ... > tag above is invalid. You'd need to
> > SGML-encode the embedded "<" and ">" as < and > to get that to work.
> > You'll also need to set translate_lt_gt to true in your htdig.conf,
> > for them to get translated.
> >
>
> Closer. When I do this, the line is no longer truncated. However, '<'
> becomes '&lt;' in the search template. EG:
>
> <dl><dt><strong><a
> href="http://www.greymattermedia.com/algtr001.htm">Suitable for Framing :: -
> Respite at Alligator Creek -</a></strong><img src="/htdig/star.gif"
> alt="*"><img src="/htdig/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="/htdig/star.gif"
> alt="*"><img src="/htdig/star.gif" alt="*">
> </dt><dd>&lt;IMG align=left width=192 height=192
> SRC="http://www.greymattermedia.com/images/algtrs01.jpg"
> align=TEXTTOP HSPACE=5 VSPACE=0 BORDER=0
> ALT="<strong>Alligator</strong> Creek National Park"&gt;Water
> and time collaborate to create a fanciful waterway. ::
> <strong>Alligator</strong> Creek National Park, Queensland<b><tt>
> ...</tt></b><br>
> <i><a
> href="http://www.greymattermedia.com/algtr001.htm">http://www.greymattermedi
> a.com/algtr001.htm</a></i>
> <font size="-1">02/19/01, 15406 bytes</font>
> </dd></dl>
For this to happen, there must be two things occurring. 1) htdig is not
translating the < and > to their decoded values, so it's not getting
the "translate_lt_gt: true" from your config file, and 2) htsearch is still
tranlating the &, > and < to their encoded values, so your changes have not
been taking effect.
> Obviously, I need to find out where this is happening. Sorry for the c++
> tutorial request--too many years since I coded in a unix environment--but
> how do I set the debug level when 'make'ing, and where does output sent to
> cout go?
I don't think there are any compile-time debuggin options. You set the
debug level at run time with one or more -v options to htdig or htsearch.
cout goes to the same file descriptor as stdout, and cerr goes to the same
file descriptor as stderr.
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Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766
Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930
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