Re: Silva 1.o / Unicode problem

Hi Guido,

I worked around the problem initially by replacing the '&' by the word 
'and'. I just converted it back. So have a look at:

http://www.bijvoet-center.nl/about/

When I inspect the source it seems that Silva is working fine in 
converting '&' to '&' The problem actually occurs in the navigation 
tree structure on the left side of the page. This is a constructed in a 
python script that includes the title. 

    title = item.get_title()
    if item.get_short_title() == item.get_title():
        item_id = item.getId()
    else:
        item_id = item.get_short_title()
       
    url    = item.absolute_url()

This is the relevant section from the script where I use 'get_title()'. 
Furthermore the 'item_id' (displayed in the tree structure) is either 
the object ID or its SHORT-title.
Anyway..... What should I use to get a html-correct string?


Bas

Guido Wesdorp wrote:

> Bas Leeflang wrote:
>
>> I had another, related problem. When I include '&' in e.g. a title or 
>> even in the running text (all based on Silva). The final page just 
>> looks fine. However, when I try to validate such a page with the 
>> http://validator.w3.org/ xhtml validator I get error messages on the 
>> '&'. It should be escaped and not appear as plain text. At least that 
>> is what I recall from the error message.
>>
>> Should Silva take care about this, or is the validator not good 
>> enough in this respect?
>>
> If the public page contains a non-entitized ampersand sign, it's a 
> bug, ampersand signs should *always* be converted to an entity, they 
> should never end up in the HTML unentitized. If it does, browsers will 
> probably show the page correctly but the content is not well-formed 
> XML anymore. If that does indeed happen, the validator is right. 
> However, when I view a public Silva page I see the ampersand as an 
> entity, in the title, the breadcrumb trail, etc. so it sounds like 
> it's a problem with your custom template rather then a Silva bug.
>
> Could you give me the URL that you validated so I can take a look for 
> myself?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Guido
>

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