On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > On 2010-08-02, <apa...@recks.org> wrote: > >> even though I would love to have the established character escaping >> with a backslash used in many programming languages, velocity is not >> up to it yet (the tendency is not to make it into a programming >> language). > > I don't have the slightest problem with that (but the again I'm not a > doxia developer either ;-). > >> To my knowledge escaping of quotes was never supported by Velocity. > > My guess is it works with Velocity 1.5 or otherwise the doxia folks > wouldn't be using it that way. At least the parser doesn't choke on the > template in question.
I'm 99.2% sure this never worked. It probably just didn't break in the same way, as you suggest. >> So in the doxia case either use a single quote for the XML attributes, >> or double-up the quotes, or use the poor-mans-escaping (TM): >> #set( $Q = '"' ) > > I'll take this advice to the doxia people and see whether they want to > adapt. "It works for 1.5 and we are not going to upgrade anyway" may be > an alternative answer. Only if by "works" you mean "fails with insufficient notice". I recommend Velocity 1.7 and doubling up the quotes. > Thank you for the feedback > > Stefan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@velocity.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@velocity.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@velocity.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@velocity.apache.org
