I think HTML-escaping of inserted text can be handled using a
ReferenceInsertionEventHandler, can't it? I've never used one, but see
http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/developer-guide.html#EventCartridge and Event
Handlers
However, this would do HTML-escaping for *all* references; it might be
preferable to have more control, so that you could escape selected
references, while still allowing raw HTML to be inserted in some instances,
e.g.
| <tr><td>Name:</td>
| <td>#html($user.name)</td></tr>
| <tr><td>Address:</td>
| <td>$user.address.toXhtml()</td></tr>
A custom directive would be one way to go, but couldn't this also be done
using a simple context-tool, and a macro? e.g
| #define(html $string)
| $htmlTool.escape($string)
| #end
I guess it depends what syntax you want. In some ways, it might be "nicer"
to make HTML-escaping the default for most references, but allow overrides
in certain case, e.g.
| <tr><td>Name:</td>
| <td>$user.name</td></tr>
| <tr><td>Address:</td>
| <td>#raw($user.address.toXhtml())</td></tr>
Not sure how to implement that.
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cheers, Mike (http://www.dogbiscuit.org/mdub/)
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