[Zope] Re: survey: zope 2.7 syntax errors with TAL statments over multiple lines

[larry j.c. prikockis]

On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 09:21, Gerry Kirk wrote:
> > I'm experiencing the same sort of problem as you - e.g., these lines
> > (which happen to be from the epoz_toolbox.pt):
> > 
> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"
> >           tal:define="charset here/portal_properties/site_properties/default_charset; dummy python:request.RESPONSE.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/html;;charset=%s' % charset)"
> >           tal:attributes="content string:text/html;;charset=${charset}" />
> > 
> > produced an error before I moved the 2 tal:define clauses up onto one
> > line.
> > 
> > very weird
> > 
> 
> I was able to fix the problem by creating a new file, copy/pasting the 
> contents of the original file into the new file, and saving it under the 
> same name. I'm running everything in Linux.
> 
> - Gerry
upon further inspection, it seems that the problem is related to
improperly escaped tab characters (and, I'm guessing, CR/LF, etc).  At
least in my case, I'm sure it has something to do with the fact that I
run Zope on linux, but edit files in a combination of browser textboxes
on both Windows and Linux, as well as via external editor (again, on
multiple platforms).  

I'm not sure that it's anything more than a coincidence that we're
seeing this all of a sudden with Zope 2.7.  Are you using Plone as
well?  
-- 
larry j.c. prikockis <larry_prikockis at natureserve.org>
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