XML encoding CMS content

[Stefan Buchali]

Hello,

RedDot CMS offers an option to "not convert to HTML" its elements.
This ends up in either outputting "Ä & Ü are German umlauts." or
"Ä & Ü are German umlauts."

There is no possibility to just convert the five XML-reserved chars,
saying: "Ä &amp Ü are German umlauts."

So I went a bit on investigation and found the following way to do
this by using render tags:

<%!! Context:CurrentPage.Headline.Replace(&, &amp;).Replace(",
&quot;) !!%>

It seems to work fine, but as this is not documented, I get no
official ok from RedDot Support to use it.

Has anyone used this before and is this known to run properly?


Kind regards,
Stefan

[markus giesen]

Hi Stefan,

before v9 I had some issues with colons :
inside text element and escaping them.
Can you confirm, that this issue doesn't affect your project?

Cheers,
Markus

[Stefan Buchali]

Hi Markus,
I just replace " and & for the moment, so I don't get an error if
there are colons in the element.

... but just to confirm that I got you right:

Page headline contains e.g.:
Rendertags: & "Tägs"

<%!! Context:CurrentPage.Headline.Replace(&, &amp;).Replace(",

&quot;) !!%> outputs:
Rendertags: &amp; &quot;Tägs&quot;

(as you can see it is possible to leave out the "Str:" prefix!)


I hope the documentation is coming soon...!


Regards,
Stefan

[Udo Baldewein (SIMAJA OHG)]

Hi Stefan,

i will make it short:

You can use: <%!! Escape:HtmlEncode(Context:CurrentPage.Headline) !!%>

Best regards

mit freundlichen Grüßen aus der Lüneburger Heide

Udo Baldewein
Geschäftsführer / CTO

SIMAJA OHG - Internet Solutions
Georg-Leppien-Str. 7
21337 Lüneburg

Fon: +49(0)4131.75800-21
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--- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
Absender: Stefan Buchali (stefan....@gmail.com)
Empfänger: RedDot CMS Users (RedDot-C...@googlegroups.com)
Betreff: XML encoding CMS content
Datum: Mi. 22.04.2009 09:16

[markus giesen]

Hi Stefan, yep you got me right, the problems which I where pointing
to can be found in the comments here
http://www.reddotcmsblog.com/character-encoding-within-navigation-manager

or in the german translation here
http://blog.markusgiesen.de/2009/03/12/character-enconding-im-navigation-manager-und-die-neue-version-des-open-text-web-solutions-servers-9-eigentlich-reddot-cms-76/

Best regards!
Markus Giesen

On 22 Apr., 17:31, "Udo Baldewein (SIMAJA OHG)"

<udo.baldew...@simaja.de> wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
>
> i will make it short:
>
> You can use: <%!! Escape:HtmlEncode(Context:CurrentPage.Headline) !!%>
>
> Best regards
>
> mit freundlichen Grüßen aus der Lüneburger Heide
>
> Udo Baldewein
> Geschäftsführer / CTO
>
> SIMAJA OHG - Internet Solutions
> Georg-Leppien-Str. 7
> 21337 Lüneburg
>
> Fon: +49(0)4131.75800-21
> Fax: +49(0)4131.75800-29

> E-Mail: udo.baldew...@simaja.de

> Web:www.simaja.de
>
> Geschäftsführende Gesellschafter
> Bernd Grote und Udo Baldewein
> Sitz: Lüneburg
> Registergericht: Lüneburg HRA 2032
> USt.-Id: DE 227157256
> SIMAJA ist "RedDot certified Partner" der RedDot Solutions AG
>
> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---

> Absender: Stefan Buchali (stefan.buch...@gmail.com)

[Stefan Buchali]

Hi Markus,
I tried this and it seems that this colon: problem occurs only within
navigation tags!

<%!! Escape:HtmlEncode(Context:CurrentPage.Headline) !!%> --> works
fine
<%!! Escape:HtmlEncode(Context:CurrentIndex.Page.Headline) !!%> -->
empty if colon

... but back on the replace issue. Using the escape method (ok this IS
documented and therefore supported) results in &#228; entities for my
nice german umlauts. In fact, there should be a Escape:XmlEncode
method...


Regards,
Stefan