Glad someone caught it :)
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 2:32 AM, TylerWeir <tyler.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > scala> val title = "Catsby & Twisp"
>
> +1 for the Penny Arcade reference.
>
> On Mar 16, 8:51 am, Derek Chen-Becker <dchenbec...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Well, it may be that the XML output portion of Scala is escaping your
> > ampersands a second time. For instance, check out this session in the
> > interpreter:
> >
> > scala> val title = "Catsby & Twisp"
> > title: java.lang.String = Catsby & Twisp
> >
> > scala> val escaped = <span>{title}</span>
> > escaped: scala.xml.Elem = <span>Catsby &amp; Twisp</span>
> >
> > scala> val unescaped = <span>{ scala.xml.Unparsed(title) }</span>
> > unescaped: scala.xml.Elem = <span>Catsby & Twisp</span>
> >
> > Note that if you embed a String within XML elements, Scala will
> > automatically escape any ampersands unless you wrap the String in a
> > scala.xml.Unparsed instance. The second test there will render in the
> > browser like "Catsby & Twisp", because the ampersand was escaped. I
> know
> > you're asking about the Utility object, but I think that would be fixing
> the
> > symptom rather than the cause.
> >
> > Derek
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 6:13 AM, Jeremy Mawson <
> jeremy.mawson.w...@gmail.com
> >
> > > wrote:
> > > Hi,
> >
> > > I've been mucking around with lift and having a great time. I have
> cooked
> > > up a page that retrieves XML from a datasource and renders it. However
> some
> > > of the text elements I extract are HTML encoded. When rendered in the
> > > browser it looks like HTML code, rather than rendered HTML.
> >
> > > I looked for a scala utility to unescape this, found
> > > scala.xml.Utility.unescape, but could not get it working.
> >
> > > Here's how I've tried to use it.
> >
> > > val title = Utility.unescape(result \ "title" text, new
> > > StringBuilder)
> >
> > > Unfortunately this always gives me a value of null, even though
> > > result.\("title").text is something like - "Tsvangirai&#39;s wife
> killed
> > > in<b>car</b>crash - ABC News"
> >
> > > What could I be doing wrong? I realise this is probably a plain old
> scala
> > > question, but I hope someone here can help me anyway.
> >
> > > Thanks
> > > Jeremy
> >
> >
> >
>
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