[Rest2web-develop] external webaddress in 'target' keyword doesn't seem to work (// -> /)

[Hans F. <h.f...@so...>]

Dear rest2web community,

first many thanks to Michael and all contributors: rest2web is an  
excellent tool to quickly generate static webpages.

I have come across one problem though, which I hope somebody can help  
me with.

In the navigation (mini-)bar, I would like to add one entry that  
points to an external webpage (let's say to "http://www.google.com"  
for clarity). I.e. this is a button (or <li> entry in the sidebar)  
that is not pointing to a page x.html that was generated from x.txt.  
Instead, it should point to an external URL.

Here is the restindex I have used to create that link in the  
navigation bar:

restindex
     crumb: Google
     format: rest
     page-title: Google
     include: Yes
     target: http://www.google.com
     build: no
     page-description:
         Google
     /description
/restindex

However, once r2w is gone over this, the output for this link in the  
navigation bar in file, say, index.html reads:

<li><a href="http:/www.google.com">Google</a></li>

Note that the URL beginning has only one slash ('/') but should have  
('//').


This error is somewhat difficult to spot as safari will guess  
correctly that a double slash was meant, but IE7 and firefox 3 (on  
Windows) will interpret this as a local page (which doesn't exist).


Any suggestions, anybody?

Many thanks,

Hans











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