[ZPT] structure in tal:attributes?

Evan Simpson evan@zope.com
Tue, 20 Nov 2001 14:30:54 -0500


alan runyan wrote:

> I think I'm missing something.  I am trying to do the following:
> <a href="#" tal:attributes="href
> string:invokeFactory?type_name=$Type&id=$unique_id">click here</a>

> 
> but TALParser turns it into valid xml $Type&amp;id=$unique_id which is not
> something I want.


You must escape ampersands in attributes.  Believe it or not, that's 
actually part of the HTML standard, and browsers like it, even in hrefs.

Cheers,

Evan @ Zope