Re: [pyblosxom-users] textile does not replace &?

[Roberto A. F. De A. <ro...@de...>]

Aslak Raanes said:
> På 6. okt 2004 kl. 11:18 skrev Gábor Farkas:
>> it seems that the textile pyblosxom plugin does not replace '&'.
>> if i write a blog entry with the text "a&b", i get "a&b" in the html
>> file.

> I think Roberto De Almeida explained why in the latest release of
> pytextile (...)

Actually, I was wrong. :)

I thought that ampersands shouldn't be escaped inside <pre> tags, because
if you wrote "&amp;" inside the <pre> it would be rendered literally as
such. A simple test proved me wrong, and I found that the standards are
very clear -- "&" should always be escaped as "&amp;".

I just released a new version of Pytextile (2.0.10) that _tries_ to escape
unescaped ampersands. A regular expression is smart enough to not escape
"&amp;" as "&amp;amp;", for example; it also handles numeric entities
correctly as far as I can tell.

Anyway, I would still recomend that if you want the textile plugin to
generate valid XHTML, install either mx.Tidy or uTidyLib and set
VALIDATE=1. You can set the flag on your config.py with the key
config['txtl_validate']=1, or directly on the textile.py file.

Regards,

Roberto

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