structured text bug in Zope 2.4.0 warning

6 Aug 2001

      I just posted this:
http://classic.zope.org:8080/Collector/2487/view

Basically, in Zope 2.4.0, the use of structured_text() returns little <html>
and <body> tags too.

I _had_ this working fine:
from DocumentTemplate.DT_Var import structured_text
def ShowDescription(text):
    """
    Display text, using harmless HTML
    """
    text = text.replace('<','<')
    text = text.replace('>','>')
    st = structured_text(text)
    # BUG in structured_text in Zope 2.4.0
    # it returns these annoying tags.
    st = st.replace('<html>','')
    st = st.replace('<body>','')
    st = st.replace('</body>','')
    st = st.replace('</html>','')
    return st

...but had to patch it to this:
from DocumentTemplate.DT_Var import structured_text

def ShowDescription(text):
    """
    Display text, using harmless HTML
    """
    text = text.replace('<','<')
    text = text.replace('>','>')
    return structured_text(text)

I just wanted to warn you because this is only a problem on the surface (the
HTML).
Some of my formatting looked the same when using IE, but with Opera I
noticed the difference because the structured text refused to stay center
aligned despite that I had this: <div align="center"><dtml-var
"ShowDescription(REQUEST['text'])"></div>

So, be careful if you use Zope 2.4.0, structured text. The worst that can
happen is that the HTML is so invalid that it doesn't work on some browsers.

Cheers, Peter

Peter Bengtsson

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