[Zope] Re: How to convert characters that have special meaning in HTML to HTML character entities

Max M maxm at mxm.dk
Thu Apr 6 08:23:39 EDT 2006


Jonathan Bowlas wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have a string that contains a <a
> href="http://www.mywebaddress.com">link</a> tag that I would like rendered
> as HTML when output but it only seems to render in the html page like this
> &lt;a href="http://www.mywebaddress.com"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;
> 
> To replace the characters, I tried this in my TAL:
> 
> <tal:block tal:define="d_stand row/STANDFIRST | nothing;
> d_stand_replaced_chars python: (str(d_stand)).replace('&gt;','>');">
> 
> <p tal:condition="d_stand_replaced_chars"
> tal:content="d_stand_replaced_chars" />
> </tal:block>
> 
> But it converted the '&gt;' I replaced with a '>' back to a '&gt;' upon
> rendering the string in a html page.
> 
> Any ideas how I can achieve this?

tal:content="structure d_stand_replaced_chars"

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