For historical reasons, I think the inputtext field displays plaintext instead of HTML text. That may be what you are seeing?
On 10/5/06, James Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've encountered a problem with some XML that I'm getting from a web > service that I've created. The problem occurs when I have to escape an > '&' character in one of the attributes of the XML. My XML looks > something like this: > > <root> > <item > uri="http://foo.bar.com/blah?foo=bar&blah=baz&boo=yuck"/> > </root> > > My Laszlo program looks like this: > > <canvas debug="true"> > <dataset name="testds" type="http" > src="http://localhost:8299/foo/bar"; request="true"/> > <view height="400" width="600" bgcolor="gray"> > <simplelayout axis="y" spacing="20"/> > <grid id="test" datapath="testds:/root" contentdatapath="item" > height="200" width="${parent.width}" > bgcolor1="#EEEEEE" bgcolor0="white" multiselect="false"> > <gridcolumn name="uri" text="URI" width="${parent.width}" > resizemargin="1" resizable="false"> > <text font="Arial" datapath="@uri"/> > </gridcolumn> > <method name="itemSelected" args="item" event="onselect"> > <![CDATA[ > var selectedItem = getSelection(); > if (selectedItem) { > editor.datapath.setFromPointer(selectedItem.dupePointer()); > } > ]]> > </method> > </grid> > <view id="editor" height="${parent.height - 10}" > width="${parent.width - 10}" x="5" y="5" > > <datapath/> > <simplelayout axis="y" spacing="3"/> > <view> > <simplelayout axis="x" spacing="3"/> > <text width="50" valign="middle">URL</text> > <edittext width="500" id="uri" datapath="@uri"/> > </view> > </view> > </view> > </canvas> > > > When I run the application, I see the following URI displayed in the > Grid control: > > http://foo.bar.com/blah?foo=bar&blah=baz&boo=yuck > > The important thing is that the ampersand has been unescaped and is > displaying as '&' instead of '&'. This is what I would expect. > However, when I click the grid, which then populates my editext field, > the URI value displays like this: > > http://foo.bar.com/blah?foo=bar&blah=baz&boo=yuck > > I'm not sure why this happened. By way of contrast, if I don't use an > HTTP dataset, but rather just hard code the XML inside of the dataset, > the URI displays correctly in both the Grid and the edittext field. > > I first noticed this problem in an editor application that I've written > which saves URI information. As long as the URI didn't contain any > query parameters things were fine. However, once a URI had multiple > parameters (separated by '&'), I started seeing things like this in my > database: > > http://foo.bar.com/blah?foo=bar&amp;blah=baz&amp;boo=yuck > > after one save, and this: > > http://foo.bar.com/blah?foo=bar&amp;amp;blah=baz&amp;amp;boo=yuck > > after two saves, etc. > > I'm trying to figure out whether the escaping/unescaping problem is > something with OpenLaszlo (problem occurs in both 3.2 and 3.3.3) or some > misunderstanding on my part about how the escaping should work. > > Thanks, and sorry for the long post. > > -- > James Howe > > > > _______________________________________________ > Laszlo-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-user > -- Henry Minsky Software Architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Laszlo-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-user
