[Zope] html_quote problem

[Florent Guillaume]

Kevin Carlson <khcarlso@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I am retrieving some text from an RDB to display on a page.  My problem, a
> browser error, occurs when there is an apostrophe ['] character in the text
> returned from the database.  My first instinct was to use the html_quote
> attribute for the var tag, but that does not work for an apostrophe
> character.  Here is an example:
> 
>    text returned from database = "Test' test test"
> 
>    <dtml-var dbText html_quote>
> 
> This still produces the ' character in the html.  Am I missing something?
> Does html_quote handle this character?

It's perfectly legal to have an apostrophe in html. Your problem must
lie somewhere else, you're probably using your variable in a context
where an apostrophe is forbidden, like a javascript or a badly-quoted
url. We need more info. What's the context where the browser complains?

Florent

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