[Distutils] PEP 438 - Transition Phase 1

[Donald Stufft]

On May 20, 2013, at 2:44 AM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:

> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 02:21:05AM -0400, Donald Stufft wrote:
>> 
>> On May 20, 2013, at 2:18 AM, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>>>> Hrm, ZPT doesn't seem to be stripping the CDATA or unescaping the strings?
>>>> 
>>>> https://gist.github.com/dstufft/5608838 is what i have in the template file and that appears verbatim in the output?
>>> 
>>> Yes? It will escape *data* inserted into the template (unless told not
>>> to), but what is in the template will appear in the output unescaped.
>>> I'm not sure how any template system can work otherwise, but perhaps
>>> I've been using Zope too long. :-)
>>> 
>>> //Lennart
>> 
>> Maybe you can tell me what I'm doing wrong?
> 
> Using zope.pagetemplate. ;)
> 
> More seriously, zope.pagetemplate has two parsing modes: HTML and XML.
> Nobody actually uses the XML mode (pt files start with an <?xml?>
> declaration, all tal/metal namespaces must be explicitly defined using
> xmlns:tal=url-that-nobody-can-remember).  The HTML mode allows you to
> write Javascript just like you would do it in a browser, with no extra
> XML-quoting:
> 
>  <script type="text/javascript>
>    if (1 < 2) alert("it works!");
>  </script>
> 
> Does this not work for you?  I'm currently looking at a Zope3 app that
> does precisely this in its working page templates.
> 
>> I need to insert a <script> tag with Javascript in it. Tres told me to
>> put the contents of the script tag in CDATA blocks which I did, and
>> then when the template was rendered it still had the CDATA blocks so
>> it was invalid javascript.
> 
> I seem to recall hacks of the form
> 
>  <script ...>
>   // <![CDATA[
>   ...
>   // ]]>
>  </script>
> 
> but I haven't seen one in a really long time.

Using this works though, so awesome!

> 
>> He also said to just put the javascript in the body of the script but
>> xml escape it. Which I did, and when the template was rendered the
>> data was still xml escaped and again invalid javascript.
> 
> I think scripts in XHTML were supposed to be XML-escaped.  AFAIU
> zope.pagetemplate was designed back when XHTML was supposed to be The
> Bright Future of the Web.
> 
> Marius Gedminas
> -- 
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