[Zope] DTML html_quoting my JavaScript

[Jonathan Hobbs]

From: "Andrew Maclean" <andyjmaclean at hotmail.com>
> I've got myself into a problem with DTML.  The system I've been working on
> uses a lot of JavaScript, which is stored in DTML methods.  After 14
months
> of development, I have been asked to reproduce the installation on another
> machine, where, unlike the original installation, all my <dtml-variables>
> are html_quoted, rendering them useless.
>
> According to the Zope book, <dtml-vars> are always html_quoted.  I know
this
> is not the case because for over a year I could successfully store
> JavaScripts in DTML methods.  Then there is no html_unquote function.
>
> I have considered just moving the data.fs file to the new installation but
I
> don't want to do that because
>
> 1) I want to know why this problem arose
>
> and
>
> 2) It's future dated, so I can't pack this database without changing the
> system time to a future date.  (if anyone knows how the date of the
data.fs
> can be modified please let me know)
>
> I doubt I'm the first to use DTML to store JavaScript, so if anyone out
> there knows how to stop it systematically wrecking the code, could you
> please please please send me some advise.  Thanks,

We use a lot of javascript in our systems, but we have never used dtml-var
to display the javascript (we just type the javascript into the dtml method
without using any dtml tags), example

<dtml-var standard_html_header>
<script>
your js here
</script>
<dtml-var standard_html_footer>

You don't need to dtml-var your js code, it will be ignored by zope and
passed 'as-is' to the client browser.

What do you mean by 'use DTML to store JavaScript'?  Are you saving js code
in property fields of zope objects or something else?

Jonathan