Oops. I just noticed I made source.body a String and not a NodeSeq.
Sometimes source.body is text with html tags in it. Like -
Hey dude, <b>what</b> are you doing?
I guess I should make it a NodeSeq. Sorry about that.
Jack
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:33 AM, David Pollak <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com
> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:32 AM, jack <jack.wid...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Let's say source.body is <a><href="google.com">Search</a>. If I put
>> source.body in a span like this -
>>
>> <span>{source.body}</span>
>>
>> source.body will be converted to text and the actual link tags will be
>> displayed. What is the right way to do this?
>>
>>
> How was source.body generated?
>
>
>> On Oct 21, 9:06 am, David Pollak <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:16 PM, jack <jack.wid...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > OK, I see why this is happening. the {exp} in the NodeSeq convert exp
>> > > to a String. So I did by creating a string and then converting it to a
>> > > NodeSeq at the end. Is there a way to do this without using and
>> > > intermediary string?
>> >
>> > I don't know what a source is, but you really, really have to be careful
>> > about promoting a String to a NodeSeq. If the String has user-generated
>> > content in it, then you've got a cross-site scripting vulnerability
>> waiting
>> > to happen. For user-generated content, I suggest using Textile parser
>> built
>> > into Lift.
>> >
>> > In any case, if you don't have a NodeSeq in your data structure, you'll
>> have
>> > to parse it into XML before displaying it.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > > On Oct 21, 1:03 am, jack <jack.wid...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > > I have the following method display. source.body has html tags in it
>> > > > but the actual tags are showing instead of being evaluated. e.g. I'm
>> > > > seeing things like '<b>Hey There</b>' instead of 'Hey There' in
>> bold.
>> > > > This method is in a CometActor and is running when the page is
>> > > > rendered. Am I missing something obvious?
>> >
>> > > > def display(sources:List[Source]):NodeSeq = {
>> >
>> > > > <span id="joop"><table>
>> > > > {
>> > > > for {source <- sources} yield <tr><td>{source.body}</td></tr>
>> > > > }
>> >
>> > > > </table>
>> > > > </span>
>> > > > }
>> >
>> > --
>> > Lift, the simply functional web frameworkhttp://liftweb.net
>> > Beginning Scalahttp://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890
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>>
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