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Opened 18 years ago

Last modified 12 years ago

#104 new enhancement

Emitting CDATA sections

Reported by: doug@… Owned by: cmlenz
Priority: minor Milestone:
Component: Template processing Version: 0.3.6
Keywords: CDATA Cc:

Description

I'm producing some XML using Genshi, and I need to be able to emit CDATA sections. Using CDATA input means that the py: tags are not processed inside the CDATA sections (which makes perfect sense), but I needed this to work.

I couldn't find anything in Genshi to support doing this, so I hacked up this horrible kludge: 

from genshi.builder import Fragment
from genshi.core import START_CDATA, END_CDATA

class CDataStart(Fragment):
    
    def _generate(self):
        yield START_CDATA, None, None
        
class CDataEnd(Fragment):
    
    def _generate(self):
        yield END_CDATA, None, None

I used instances of these in the template, and it seemed to work ok.

I don't necessarily want you to include this gruesome functionality, but I think the use case is valid at least. I imagine you might have a less horrible solution.

Change History (4)

comment:1 Changed 18 years ago by oliver.cope@…

Hi Doug,

I ran into this one too and found a different solution. ${} substitutions are still made in CDATA sections and if necessary these can be combined with a py:def elsewhere in the template to give you access to the full range of py: attributes, eg: 

<html xmlns:py="http://genshi.edgewall.org/">
    <div py:def="foo()">
        <span py:content="1 + 2"></span>
    </div>
    <script><![CDATA[
        ${foo()}
    ]]></script>
</html>

Not sure this counts as 'less horrible' though -- maybe just 'differently horrible'? ;o)

comment:2 Changed 18 years ago by cmlenz

  • Component changed from General to Template processing
  • Milestone 0.4 deleted

I don't have a bright idea here either, so this'll have to wait until someone comes up with an acceptable solution.

comment:3 Changed 15 years ago by Carsten Klein <carsten.klein@…>

Please consider escaping <py: statements by &lt;py:

That way, your genshi statements will not be evaluated by the engine.

comment:4 Changed 15 years ago by Carsten Klein <carsten.klein@…>

see also the initiative to support pluggable directives libraries in WorkInProgress/PluggableDirectivesLibraries and ticket #395 thereof.

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