On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Grant Wood <smackt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello Lifters, > > If I create a template with the following: > > <lift:surround with="page_master" at="content"> > <a class="thickbox" href="/media/?height=440&width=640">Foo</a> > <lift:bind name="content" /> > </lift:surround> > > I will be served an empty page, containing none of my snippets, and > throwing or logging no errors. By "empty" I mean, the page contains > only the outermost xhtml which Lift wraps a page with (liftajax, xml > declaration, etc.) but nothing from any of my own templates or > snippets. > > Very odd. > > On a hunch, I escaped the & to & and suddenly the page appeared > fully rendered. i.e.: > <a class="thickbox" href="/media/index.xml? > height=440&width=640">Foo</a> > > My first concern is that I should not have had to escape the & at all > in an attribute. This is a valid character in any XML attribute. > & is not a valid character in an XML attribute. The & character must be escaped as & > > Second, if there is some reasonable lift-specific reason that I need > to escape "&" in attributes, then shouldn't Lift decode each & > back to "&" inside attributes upon page rendering? ( and if that's > the case, then couldn't that same test be used to prevent the need to > escape the "&" in the first place?) > Lift yields valid XHTML to the browser. & is valid xhtml, <a href=' http://something?height=440&width=660'> is *not* valid XHTML and will be rejected by your browser. > > I am using lift 1.1-SNAPSHOT > > Thanks for your comments. > > > > -- Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp Git some: http://github.com/dpp --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
