[Petal] Observations

[Jean-Michel Hiver]

On Wed 11-Sep-2002 at 06:06:54PM -0400, William McKee wrote:
> A few observations although no time to do tests:
> 
> - Using < in an XHTML template does not result in the < being 
> converted to '<'. Using &gt; will get converted to '>'. Inserting these 
> characters directly causes them to be converted to their HTML symbols.

Remember the style &quot; bug? This bug forces me to convert only &lt;
and &amp; in the X(HT)ML which is outputted, which is valid. In other
words, don't worry, it's still valid as long as you send the right
character set with your content-type. 


> - Petal docs do not mention the newer modifiers such as 'string:'.

Yes, docs are out of date, once again :-)


> - The following tag causes an error (this was my attempt to work around 
> the above problem):
> 	<?petal:var name="string:<"?>

What exactly are you trying to do?

Cheers,
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