[Petal] Bug report

[William McKee]

On 2 Sep 2002 at 16:33, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote:
> There is an error in your test template:
> 
>   <?petal:repeat="student students"?>
> 
> This should be:
> 
>   <?petal:repeat name="student students"?>
> 
> Which makes me realize that there is a bug in the documentation :-(

Can you include a pointer in your docs to a basic XML tutorial which helps 
users grasp this format? It seems that if I knew more about XML, I would 
have caught that syntax error myself. Of course, those of us not familiar 
with XML are probably using TAL. However, if you or anyone else has any 
suggestions for a tutorial that would help explain the above syntax, I'd 
be most obliged.


> As for the &nbsp; entities, both HTML::TreeBuilder and XML::Parser do
> expand them. I do not know how to fix that properly. I could double
> encode everything (i.e &nbsp; => &amp;nbsp;) but I'm pretty sure that
> there would be side effects...
>
> I'll put it in a 'Known Bugs' section for now. Meanwhile if anyone has got
> a hint I'll gladly take it!

That sounds like a good idea, for now. I agree that doubling encoding 
sounds like it's asking for trouble. I still think it's going to take 
users awhile to get familiar with this notion of Petal rewriting their 
templates. I think it would be helpful to make this statement in the 
Summary section of the docs just so folks are aware that their templates 
are being completely reparsed and rebuilt by the INPUT and OUTPUT 
libraries.

I'll retest once you release 0.64.

As always, thanks for the updates!
William

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