Hi Jianwu, This seems to be an issue with Kepler's documentation system. The custom documentation system in Ptolemy works fine.
The difference between the two .xml files you attached is below: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 34% diff model1.xml model2.xml 4c4 < <entity name="model3" class="ptolemy.actor.TypedCompositeActor"> --- > <entity name="model4" class="ptolemy.actor.TypedCompositeActor"> 26c26 < <property name="userLevelDocumentation" class="ptolemy.kernel.util.ConfigurableAttribute"><configure><p><hello>The StringConstant actor outputs a string specified via the actor's value parameter.</p> --- > <property name="userLevelDocumentation" > class="ptolemy.kernel.util.ConfigurableAttribute"><configure><p><hello>The > StringConstant actor outputs a string specified via the actor's value > parameter.</p> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 35% If, under Ptolemy II 7.1.devel, I do this: 1) Start up, create a blank model 2) Drag a StringConst in 3) Right click, select Documentation | Customize Documentation 4) In the description field, enter This is a <b>test</b> of > in a description 5) View the documentation, it looks fine: This is a test of > in a description 6) Saving and reloading the file seems to work fine as well. In step 2 of your example, you edit the xml by hand, right? One solution is to not do that :-) The issue here is that <configure> is defined to have PCDATA, not CDATA. The MoML DTD says: <!ELEMENT configure (#PCDATA)> <!ATTLIST configure source CDATA #IMPLIED> http://www.w3schools.com/dtd/dtd_building.asp described PCDATA and CDATA --start-- PCDATA PCDATA means parsed character data. Think of character data as the text found between the start tag and the end tag of an XML element. PCDATA is text that WILL be parsed by a parser. The text will be examined by the parser for entities and markup. Tags inside the text will be treated as markup and entities will be expanded. However, parsed character data should not contain any &, <, or > characters; these need to be represented by the & < and > entities, respectively. CDATA CDATA means character data. CDATA is text that will NOT be parsed by a parser. Tags inside the text will NOT be treated as markup and entities will not be expanded. --end-- So, if you use <configure>, then the contents get parsed and thus should be well formed xml. Now, it might be possible to something with <configure source="Foo.xml"> but I'm not sure. I think there is a bug here in that if the inside of <configure> is >hello> then somehow that should be preserved. However, I'm not sure how to do that. _Christopher -------- Hi guys: We met an exception on escaped character parsing of moml file. You can recur the exception by the following steps: 1, get one moml file (as model1.xml in attachement) 2, edit the moml file by adding "<hello>" in a certain <configure> (as model2.xml in attachement) 3, open the edited moml file (model2.xml) There will be an exception when you "save as" the edited moml file (model2.xml) or "save" and "open" it. It is because "<hello>" is changed to "<hello>" when you save the file. Any ideas? Thanks. -- Best wishes Sincerely yours Jianwu Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Post-Doctor Scientific Workflow Automation Technologies (SWAT) Laboratory San Diego Supercomputer Center University of California, San Diego San Diego, U.S.A. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted to the ptolemy-hackers mailing list. Please send administrative mail for this list to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
