You could also do something like:
#set($catLink = $emptyString.concat("<a
href=").concat('"').concat($linkStr).concat("'").concat(">$category.Name</a>"))
Of course you need to set $emptyString to the emtpy string in your
context. Not as pretty, but it works.
Warner Onstine wrote:
>Awesome, thanks!
>
>-warner
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jon Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "velocity-dev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 5:31 PM
>Subject: Re: escaping characters
>
>
>>on 7/20/01 5:30 PM, "Warner Onstine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>I'm just hoping there's a better solution to this. I am trying to do
>>>
>this:
>
>>>#set ($catLink = "<a href='$linkStr'>$category.Name</a>")
>>>
>>>But, I don't want the href to contain single quotes, but instead double
>>>quotes. I've looked through the docs and haven't found anything related
>>>
>to
>
>>>this.
>>>
>>>Everything that I've tried so far has either resulted in a bad link or
>>>
>an
>
>>>error, any help would be appreciated.
>>>
>>>-warner
>>>
>>#macro ( link $name $value )<a href="$value">$name</a>#end
>>
>>#set ($catLink = "#link($category.Name $linkStr)")
>>
>>Or, if you are using Turbine, just use $link
>>
>>-jon
>>
>>
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