Try single outer quotes, but beyond that you should ask this question on
the velocity list. You stand a much better chance of getting an answer
that works.
john mcnally
Jason Crickmer wrote:
>
> Let's say I have a macro like this (from GlobalMacros.vm in newapp
> that comes with the TDK):
>
> #macro (entryCell $body)
> <td bgcolor="$ui.formFieldColor">
> <font face="$ui.sansSerifFonts">
> $body
> </font>
> </td>
> #end
>
> Now, I want to do something like this:
>
> #entryCell ("<a href=\"$link.setPage(\"EventDetail.vm\").addPathInfo(\"eventId\",
>$entry.getId())\">$entry.Title</a>")
>
> With the backslash before the double quotes inside the "string
> literal", I get a result of this:
>
> <td bgcolor="#ffffff">
> <font face="lucida sans">
> <a href=\"$link.setPage(\"EventDetail.vm\").addPathInfo(\"eventId\",
>$entry.getId())\">$entry.Title</a>
> </font>
> </td>
>
> This obviously isn't what I wanted. But, if I take even just one
> backslash out, then I get things like this in my log:
>
> Tue Jul 10 03:41:36 GMT-06:00 2001 [warn]
>org.apache.velocity.runtime.exception.ReferenceException: reference : template =
>screens/EventList.vm [line 1,column 11] : $link.setPage is not a valid reference.
>
> And, to make thigs worse, the line number and column number of
> the warning isn't even correct.
>
> Any ideas on a work around (I already tried creating a variable with
> #set but had little success).
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>
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