Re: [xwiki-users] Problems w/ displaying HTML Entities as Plaintext

[Vincent Massol]

On Nov 10, 2008, at 5:39 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:

> Vincent Massol wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've just tried your example:
>>
>> {code}
>> <!ENTITY Auml "&#196">
>> {code}
>
> No, that's not the problem. He tried to enter:
>
> {code}
> &lt;!ENTITY Auml &quot;&amp;#196;&quot;&gt;
> {code}
>
> which was displayed as
>
> <!ENTITY Auml "&#196">
>
> and not as
>
> &lt;!ENTITY Auml &quot;&amp;#196;&quot;&gt;
>
> Which means that we do escape < and >, but no &. Do we want that? Is  
> it
> something all users want and need? I'll be -1 for changing this, since
> it will break non-UTF instances that need to print non-ISO-8859-1
> symbols in a {code} block.
>
>
> Sascha, you could double-escape, like in:
>
> {code}
> &amp;lt;!ENTITY Auml &amp;quot;&amp;amp;#196;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;
> {code}
>
> I know it's more hard work, but it's a working workaround.

Another solution is to use XWiki 2.0 syntax (available since 1.7M1)  
which supports full escaping.
See http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax

Thanks
-Vincent

>> And it worked well:
>>
>> http://playground.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Test/VMA
>>
>> (note: this link will be reset tomorrow but just edit the page and
>> copy the input to recreate it)
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent
>>
>> On Nov 10, 2008, at 5:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>> Hey everyone,
>>> While using XWiki version 1.1.2.5797 to document some software, the
>>> following problem occurred:
>>> I tried to insert snippets of a XSL file into a XWiki page using a
>>> {code}
>>> macro. As far as I know this macro treats input as plaintext, which
>>> would
>>> be exactly what I need. However, it turned out to work  
>>> differently. It
>>> parsed HTML entities, so instead of displaying inputs like
>>> &lt;!ENTITY Auml &quot;&amp;#196;&quot;&gt;
>>> exactly as they are, the HTML parts are parsed to
>>> <!ENTITY Auml "&#196;">
>>> Having failed with the {code} macro, I tried {pre} and \, but none
>>> of them
>>> worked. The same problem occurred when I used XWiki 1.7 which is
>>> running
>>> on a test server in the company I work for. Does anyone of you know
>>> how to
>>> make XWiki display HTML and XML entities as plaintext?
>>> I could not find anything about this problem in the documentation,  
>>> the
>>> FAQ, or in the mailing list archive. Did I simply miss something?
>>> Since I
>>> read some threads about issues with the WYSIWYG editor, let me add
>>> that I
>>> use the XWiki editor, not the WYSIWYG editor.
>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Sascha
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