[Xerte] Re: Query re formatting?

[Tom Reijnders]

One of the issues I think is, that we internally use '<'to escape the 
'<' and than when going back we can't differentiate correctly between 
< typed in by the user, or < generated by escaping code.

We could try to fix that...

Tom

Op 3-5-2013 13:54, Julian Tenney schreef:
>
> It'll be the ones where the text is escaped and held on a node 
> attribute, rather than CDATAed and held as the node's payload. It 
> isn't easy to escape the XML, load it into the editor, edit it and 
> escape it again on the way out in those cases. You're sort of taking 
> this to places it isn't really intended to go.
>
> Things are better in bootstrap, because all text is CDATA, so HTML is 
> safe, but it's not entirely safe in the toolkit.
>
> *From:*xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Fay Cross
> *Sent:* 03 May 2013 12:26
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Query re formatting?
>
> I've just tried < in text on a few pages and it's displaying as 
> text for me.  Is it a problem on just some pages types?  Which ones?
>
> I can fix the table <br> problem though.  It's adding brs in where 
> ever there are line breaks which currently even includes in table 
> markup.  So, for example:
>
> <table><tr><td>Hello</td></tr></table>
>
> ... will look fine but...
>
> <table>
>
> <tr>
>
> <td>Hello</td>
>
> </tr>
>
> </table>
>
> ... will add in lots of unnecessary brs.
>
> I'll get it to ignore those between table tags.
>
> *From:*xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> 
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Alistair 
> McNaught
> *Sent:* 03 May 2013 10:04
> *To:* xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk <mailto:xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Query re formatting?
>
> A colleague and I have been working on creating a training module for 
> publishers on accessibility metadata. The metadata is in XML format 
> and we are trying to embed it in XOT pages to illustrate different 
> metadata and how it describes different parts of a book cover.
>
> However it is proving a bit unpredictable in the code. Can anyone 
> advise us on the following?
>
> -- how does text containing the < character to work? It seems 
> completely capricious, sometimes switching between displaying the < 
> and trying to interpret it as markup even after you've got it all 
> correct. In two editing sessions, I was unable to form an 
> understanding of what the editor was doing to my text
>
> -- the application appears to insert a predictable (but not 
> controllable) number of blank lines (as <br>) above each <table> 
> inserted in a text box. Can this be controlled?
>
> Any advice would be welcome. Obviously it's brilliant to now have 
> tables working in XOT but it would be nice if they weren't so stuffed 
> with BRs. And is there a way to understand < behaviour or should we 
> be using latex instead?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Alistair
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