Thanks guys. It works.
On Feb 9, 2010, at 10:26 PM, David Pollak wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:04 PM, GA <my_li...@me.com> wrote:
> What we have here is a iphone native application that has the help screens in
> HTML. The help screens are in multiple languages and are stored in the
> database.
>
> When the application starts, it checks in the server for updates in the help
> pages calling a particular URL but with different context parameters. The
> downloaded HTML is stored locally in the app to be able to work when the
> phone is offline. The downloaded content has a common template for each
> language and it loads the content from the database.
>
> The help content has been written as HTML in MS Word. It has been already
> formatted there. That is why it is stored altogether in the database. It is
> not a typical lift web site.
>
> If it is not possible to pass the characters unescaped, then we will have to
> create the pages individually loading just the text from the database. It is
> not a big deal and I know it would be cleaner, but I wanted to know if we can
> avoid this change.
>
> As Naftoli mentioned, scala.xml.Unparsed(string) will pass string to the
> output. If the string is not valid XML, the client browser may complain.
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> GA
>
> On Feb 9, 2010, at 8:31 PM, David Pollak wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:00 AM, GA <my_li...@me.com> wrote:
>> Hello guys,
>>
>> I have a very silly question. I have a snippet that reads a string field
>> from the database and it inserts it within a html page.
>>
>> So far so good. The text that the snippet reads from the database is a piece
>> of html code. The problem is that the bind method replaces the "<" and ">"
>> within the string with "<" and ">". The snippet looks like that:
>>
>> if (context != "") {
>> ContextHelp.findByKey(context.toLong) match {
>> case Full(help) => {
>> val message = help.contextHelp
>> Helpers.bind("b", in, "text" -> message.toString)
>> }
>> case _ => Helpers.bind("b", in, "text" -> "Context not
>> found")
>> }
>> } else Helpers.bind("b", in, "text" -> "The URL is invalid. ")
>>
>>
>> The HTML that calls the snippet looks like this:
>>
>> <lift:LoadHelp.getHelp>
>> <b:text/>
>> </lift:LoadHelp.getHelp>
>>
>> What should I do to get the html content without changes in the tags?
>>
>> It is not Helpers.bind() that's transforming the text. It's the XML
>> libraries that properly XML escape Text() elements when they are converted
>> from XML representation to a byte stream.
>>
>> In almost every context, this is what you want... you want Strings to be
>> properly escaped. If that was not the case, there would be tons of cross
>> site scripting issues.
>>
>> So, what is the type of "message" in the code above? Do you really, really,
>> really mean for the String representation of message to be not XML escaped?
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> GA
>>
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