[Zope-dev] DT_Var modifier

[Christian Theune]

Hi. 
* Adrian Hungate <adrian@haqa.co.uk> [020529 18:20]:
> If I understand what you are asking, this is something I need as well. I am
> trying to create an entity_encode and entity_decode modifier (Like the html
> encode and html decode modifiers) that will encode (decode) all characters
> in the string that are special or illegal in XML.
> 
> If there is an easy (Or even not so easy) way of adding this without a nasty
> patch (i.e. replacing an entire method in DT_Var) I would love to hear about
> it. If there isn't I would like to propose that this be changed (i.e.
> added).

Ok. There already is something like a small registry (it's only a list) where
you need to add your filter function, but the __init__ patch is bad.

If someone would tell me to go on, I would start a small refactoring of this
to allow that become more easy to introduce new filters ...

Regards

Christian

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