I looked at the way 1.3 did it and I'm going to do the same thing -- escaping is always off unless specifically turned on.
----- Original Message ----- From: "boxed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 12:04 PM Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] Escaping > Pat Lightbody wrote: > > >That was a typo -- I'd only escape things that didn't have bodies to avoid > >that very confusion. What say you? > > > > > > > That sounds fine, although I'm not too keen on the always escape thing > since I won't use it myself. I have my own tranformations I want to do > that are a bit more complex than the standard HTML escaping, or I don't > do any. An option to turn it off per component is probably a better idea > than globally if components are to live together peacefully. > > With those two caveats: +1 :P > > Anders Hovmöller > > >>Pat Lightbody wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>There are a few open issues with regards to escaping -- none of which > >>>all agree how it should be handled. Some want UI tags to escape, some > >>>want them not to. Some want the URL tag to escape, others don't. I am > >>>leaning towards this: > >>> > >>>* UI tags, property, iterate, text, etc should all _escape_ by default > >>>* URL tag should NOT escape by default > >>>* All tags should have an escape attribute (true/false) > >>>* Possibly have global params in webwork.properties to override the > >>>two defaults (UI & URL) > >>> > >>>What do you guys think? > >>> > >>>-Pat > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>I think there is some mistake here. The property tag AND the iterate > >>tags can't escape. That will create the following issue: > >> > >><ww:iterate value="foo"> > >> this is escaped > >> <ww:property value="thisPropertyIsEscapedTwice"/> > >></ww:iterate> > >> > >>etcetc. It seems that either you haven't thought this through or you put > >>it strangely. +1 on all tags having escape attribute though. I do think > >>that it might be an issue that there's really two kinds of escaping: > >>escaping the body of the tag and escaping the text the tag prints. This > >>is rather confusing, and unwanted. > >> > >>Anders Hovmöller > >> > >> > >> > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Opensymphony-webwork mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Opensymphony-webwork mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork
