Am Mittwoch 20 August 2008 19:59:37 schrieb Christian Theune:

On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 19:34 +0200, Hermann Himmelbauer wrote:

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Hi, I have a page template, that should have the characters "<" and ">" in the resulting HTML code, e.g.:

<input type="hidden", name="xyz", value="<ABC>" />

Zope3 makes a < / &rt; out of the "<>" characters:

<input type="hidden", name="xyz", value="<ABC&rt;"

Is there a way to get around this automatic conversion? I tried it via:

<input .... tal:attributes="value python:'<ABC>'" />

But this makes no difference.

Any clues?

Best Regards, Hermann

P.S.: I know, this seems to make no sense, but the page is a template for another, foreign application, which needs this specific values as placeholders and which I can not adapt...

My memory says and the HTML validator acknowledges it: this *is* broken.

PT is designed to not do that.

Here's how it *might* work:

Take a view that generates the broken HTML snippet, like:

class View:

def code(self): return '<input value="<broken>"/>'

And in your template do:

<div tal:replace="structure view/code"/>

I didn't test it and I'm not sure it works. It might, though.

Yes, many thanks for that, this did the trick! Interestingly, something like this did not work:: def attrcode(self): return '<broken>' <input value="" tal:attributes="value view/attrcode" /> Best Regards, Hermann -- hermann@qwer.tk GPG key ID: 299893C7 (on keyservers) FP: 0124 2584 8809 EF2A DBF9 4902 64B4 D16B 2998 93C7

Christian Theune wrote:

PS: This makes the little internet elves cry.

Not to mention coming and finding you in your sleep and cutting your fingers off to prevent you doing it again... Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk