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#1 2009-05-21 13:38:19

johnstephens

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From: Woodbridge, VA

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How can I get <txp:title /> to escape the ampersand?

I have an ampersand in the title field of an article:

This is a post about this & that thing

I use the <txp:title /> tag to get it into the page:

This is a post about this & that thing

Is there a way to get Textpattern to escape the ampersand between “this” and “that”, so that it comes out as a valid &?

I could wrap every instance of txp:title in upm_textile, but that seems like overkill.

#2 2009-05-21 14:14:17

els

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Re: How can I get <txp:title /> to escape the ampersand?

johnstephens wrote:

I could wrap every instance of txp:title in upm_textile, but that seems like overkill.

A similar solution can be found here, it’s an old thread but I don’t think the way Txp handles titles has been changed since then.

#3 2009-05-21 19:11:12

johnstephens

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Re: How can I get <txp:title /> to escape the ampersand?

Thanks, Els; that’s useful.

My question is when would you every want to display an un-encoded ampersand?

I may use <txp:title /> in a variety of places— header elements, article lists, tabular data, et cetera— but if a client updating their site uses and ampersand in their title, they get invalid output. Unless every single instance of <txp:title /> is wrapped in the Textile plugin or Mr. Dale’s method.

Hmmm.

#4 2009-05-21 19:25:50

jsoo

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Re: How can I get <txp:title /> to escape the ampersand?

I don’t understand how you’re getting unencoded ampersands in the title in the first place. When you save an article they should be encoded.

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#5 2009-05-21 22:10:42

johnstephens

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Re: How can I get <txp:title /> to escape the ampersand?

jsoo wrote:

When you save an article they should be encoded.

I agree— that would be my expectation. But that’s not what is happening here: check out this test page . Test page removed

EDIT: Very strange, I added some text to the body, clicked save again, and the ampersands got encoded.

Last edited by johnstephens (2009-05-22 13:20:57)

#6 2009-05-22 03:29:36

johnstephens

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Re: How can I get <txp:title /> to escape the ampersand?

I can’t reproduce the problem now; I guess it was just a fluke that I got an unencoded &. I only noticed it when I ran it through the validator, and when I re-saved the article it got encoded.

#7 2009-05-22 11:27:03

immarabi

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Registered: 2008-04-29

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Re: How can I get <txp:title /> to escape the ampersand?

This happened to me, actually, when I had zem_reborn print the <txp:title /> of an article in an email. The ampersand would not be escaped and all the quotes also. But when I unchecked the “Prevent widowed words in article titles?” it solved the problem.