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#1 2010-04-23 15:27:32
- jwpadgett
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XML and HTML in articles
I’m having trouble with TXP stripping my XML and HTML elements when writing articles with code examples. I prefer to hand code my articles instead of using textile, and I thought that using the pre and code elements would be enough, but alas. Is this possible without using textile? Must I convert the control characters to UTF-8 entities? This would make proofing/editing the code a nightmare.
Thanks for any feedback!
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Re: XML and HTML in articles
hi jwpadgett,
textile is not compulsory. If you go to Admin>Preferences, you can disable it. Also check out “Problems with code in article bodies” and “How do I post tags and code on the forum?” (which is also valid for the txp install, if you opt to join the textile way) in the FAQ
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#3 2010-04-23 16:17:28
- jwpadgett
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Re: XML and HTML in articles
Thanks for the prompt reply, Colak!
I had already disabled textile in my admin preferences. I have my xml and html code inside of pre elements, but Textpattern is stripping the elements or interpreting the html instead of honoring the pre declaration.
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#4 2010-04-23 20:49:15
- els
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Re: XML and HTML in articles
jwpadgett wrote:
I had already disabled textile in my admin preferences.
Did you save articles before you did that? Because Txp also saves the textiled version, you’ll still see that as long as you haven’t re-saved these articles.
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#5 2010-04-23 20:59:49
- jwpadgett
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Re: XML and HTML in articles
No, I had textile disabled before saving. I did use textile on the excerpt, but not the article body.
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#6 2010-04-23 21:36:08
- els
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Re: XML and HTML in articles
Hmm, just tried this myself and you are right. If Textile is off, < and > aren’t being converted into < and >. If I were you I’d enable Textile and use pre.. and a space at the start of your article (note the double dot for extended formatted blocks). Like this:
pre.. <a href="#">link</a>
<strong>blah</strong>
<div>
some text
</div>which displays:
<a href="#">link</a>
<strong>blah</strong>
<div>
some text
</div>
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#7 2010-04-24 13:06:43
- jwpadgett
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Re: XML and HTML in articles
Would this be considered a bug?
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#9 2010-04-24 20:42:42
- els
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Re: XML and HTML in articles
I wouldn’t consider it a bug. You sometimes need html tags in an article, for instance for the (few) things Textile can’t handle.
And using bc.. just once is not that much trouble, is it?
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#10 2010-04-24 22:41:47
- jwpadgett
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Re: XML and HTML in articles
Not much trouble, no. However, my expectation of “Leave Text Untouched” is just that; my article should have been rendered as intended.
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#11 2010-04-24 22:54:29
- els
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Re: XML and HTML in articles
jwpadgett wrote:
my article should have been rendered as intended.
How should Txp know if you want to display <strong>this is strong</strong> or this is strong? ;)
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#12 2010-04-25 01:01:56
- jwpadgett
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Re: XML and HTML in articles
That’s just it, though. TXP shouldn’t care when I’ve specified “Leave text alone.” the HTML elements and the user agent will handle how I want my content displayed. I used the PRE element to tell the agent how I want <strong>text</strong> to display.
I’m not trying to be difficult, I just expected the system to behave as specified.
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