[Zope] Using Structured Text and HTML-quote together for RSS 2.0

[Chris Withers]

Jonathan Cyr wrote:
> I am constructing an RSS 2.0 feed for a zope app.  I am creating the 
> rss.xml file in a DTML method.  

Use ZPT, it's much better suited to this...

> to include in the feed is a structured-text paragraph.  To use any XHTML 
> in a feed you must "html_quote" all of the extended characters for it to 
> work.

What do you mean by "extended characters" here?

> So I wish to do something like <dtml-var summary fmt="structured-text" 
> html_quote>
> 
> This obviously doesn't work, (would have been cool if it did tho).  How 
> do I access the structured text and html quote translation mechanisms in 
> an expr tag.
> 
> Something like <dtml-var expr="summary.structured_text().html_quote()">


ZPT does html quoting by default, so provided summary.structured_text() 
does what yo uexpect it to, you could just do:

<tal:x replace="summary/structured_text"/>

That said, I'd pretty sure RSS feeds CAN include html, and it doesn't 
need to be quoted...

> ps- I don't use ZPT, DTML was chose a while back, and would rather keep 

Well, un-choose it, especially for something new and isolated like an 
RSS feed...

> the RSS in a DTML Method rather than a python script.  The layers are 
> getting pretty hairy, don't want to add indention to it

Huh?!

Chris

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