On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:04 PM, GA <[email protected]> wrote: > What we have here is a iphone native application that has the help screens > in HTML. The help screens are in multiple languages and are stored in the > database. > > When the application starts, it checks in the server for updates in the > help pages calling a particular URL but with different context parameters. > The downloaded HTML is stored locally in the app to be able to work when the > phone is offline. The downloaded content has a common template for each > language and it loads the content from the database. > > The help content has been written as HTML in MS Word. It has been already > formatted there. That is why it is stored altogether in the database. It is > not a typical lift web site. > > If it is not possible to pass the characters unescaped, then we will have > to create the pages individually loading just the text from the database. It > is not a big deal and I know it would be cleaner, but I wanted to know if we > can avoid this change. >
As Naftoli mentioned, scala.xml.Unparsed(string) will pass string to the output. If the string is not valid XML, the client browser may complain. > > Thanks in advance, > > GA > > On Feb 9, 2010, at 8:31 PM, David Pollak wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:00 AM, GA <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello guys, >> >> I have a very silly question. I have a snippet that reads a string field >> from the database and it inserts it within a html page. >> >> So far so good. The text that the snippet reads from the database is a >> piece of html code. The problem is that the bind method replaces the "<" and >> ">" within the string with "<" and ">". The snippet looks like >> that: >> >> if (context != "") { >> ContextHelp.findByKey(context.toLong) match { >> case Full(help) => { >> val message = help.contextHelp >> Helpers.bind("b", in, "text" -> message.toString) >> } >> case _ => Helpers.bind("b", in, "text" -> "Context not >> found") >> } >> } else Helpers.bind("b", in, "text" -> "The URL is invalid. ") >> >> >> The HTML that calls the snippet looks like this: >> >> <lift:LoadHelp.getHelp> >> <b:text/> >> </lift:LoadHelp.getHelp> >> >> What should I do to get the html content without changes in the tags? >> > > It is not Helpers.bind() that's transforming the text. It's the XML > libraries that properly XML escape Text() elements when they are converted > from XML representation to a byte stream. > > In almost every context, this is what you want... you want Strings to be > properly escaped. If that was not the case, there would be tons of cross > site scripting issues. > > So, what is the type of "message" in the code above? Do you really, > really, really mean for the String representation of message to be not XML > escaped? > > >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> GA >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Lift" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<liftweb%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net > Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 > Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp > Surf the harmonics > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Lift" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Lift" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<liftweb%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en. > -- Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp Surf the harmonics -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en.
