Re: Correct quote escaping in href for javascript in WO 5.4

From: Mike Schrag (mschra..dimension.com)
Date: Mon Oct 29 2007 - 21:23:05 EDT

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    So apparently Me From Two Months Ago is smarter than Me From Now. The
    XML spec apparently says that apostrophes in attribute values is
    illegal and should be escaped as ' ... Whether this is enforced
    or not, I'm not sure.

    ms

    On Oct 29, 2007, at 8:31 PM, Brendan Duddridge wrote:

    > Yes, that is correct. WO 5.4 checkbox on = quote escape errors. WO
    > 5.4 checkbox off = NO quote escape errors.
    >
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    >
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    > On Oct 29, 2007, at 5:45 PM, Mike Schrag wrote:
    >
    >> Hmm.. This SORT OF sounds like a bug. I would have thought single
    >> quote would actually be valid inside of a quoted string. I'm not
    >> sure why it would complain about single quotes in there. I'll have
    >> to take a look. And this only happens when WO 5.4 validation is
    >> specifically turned on?
    >>
    >> On Oct 29, 2007, at 7:32 PM, Brendan Duddridge wrote:
    >>
    >>> Hi,
    >>>
    >>> In WOLips on Leopard, I turned on the WO 5.4 validation. Now on my
    >>> components that have inline javascript, I get an error: "The
    >>> character ''' must be escaped"
    >>>
    >>> Here is a sample bit of HTML:
    >>>
    >>> <a href="#" onclick="itemView.activateTab('tab1');
    >>> itemView.findProductMatches();">Matches</a>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>> I'm not sure if I should be using &quote; or not to properly
    >>> escape the single quotes. After all, WO templates in WO 5.4 now
    >>> need to be valid XML documents as far as I know. I've already been
    >>> converting all my <br> tags to <br /> to clean things up.
    >>>
    >>>
    >>> I tried backslash quote ( \' ), but it didn't make the validator
    >>> happy. So what is the correct syntax?
    >>>
    >>> This syntax does validate, but I'm just wondering if it's correct:
    >>>
    >>> <a href="#" onclick="itemView.activateTab(&quot;tab1&quot;);
    >>> itemView.findProductMatches();">Matches</a>
    >>>
    >>> Will WO properly render the page with the quotes unescaped so the
    >>> javascript will function properly at display time?
    >>>
    >>>
    >>> Thanks,
    >>>
    >>>
    >>> ____________________________________________________________________
    >>> Brendan Duddridge | CTO | 403-277-5591 x24 | brenda..lickspace.com
    >>>
    >>> ClickSpace Interactive Inc.
    >>> Suite L100, 239 - 10th Ave. SE
    >>> Calgary, AB T2G 0V9
    >>>
    >>> http://www.clickspace.com
    >>>
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >

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