Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] pagemaster and < > chars

[Mike N. <mh...@us...>]

On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 10:04, Adam Morton wrote:
> Pagemaster does not parse the input or output text in it's own code. It
> relies on core functions called parseInput() and parseOutput()
> respectively.  These functions may need to be revised to allow for some of
> these cases.  I will get some input for the dev guys here and if any of
> you have some ideas, please let us know.

Adam,
Thanks for the correction to my erroneous assumption.

Testing might be simplified, if a single entity format is allowed. I
suggest Unicode compliant &#xxxx; hex entities. This string should be
fairly easy to check for.

    Unicode Character Name Index
    http://www.unicode.org/charts/charindex.html

Alternately, a raw edit mode could be implemented, that bypasses all
parsing. This mode should probably only be available to deities.

> > On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 11:08, Don Seiler wrote:
> >> In trying to port some documentation over to pagemaster, I noticed
> >> that I  have a lot of references to variables inside < and > chars,
> >> like "<pid>".   The problem is pagemaster is interpreting this as an
> >> attempted HTML tag  and stripping it out.  I have a lot of different
> >> references so adding  every one to the allowed_tags var isn't
> >> reasonable.  &lt; and &gt; get  altered by pagemaster so they
> >> literally display "&lt;" or "&gt;"  respectively.
> >
> > Don,
> > PageMaster may need to be modified, so it doesn't convert & to &amp; if
> > & is followed by a ;.
> >
> >> Is there a way to get those chars to display?
> >
> > Unknown by me.

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