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[jira] Commented: (VELOCITY-391) Provide better syntax for
converting XML entities
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Nathan Bubna commented on VELOCITY-391:
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Personally, i don't think it's Velocity's concern to ever do this for general text. That's a whole different can o' worms. I think this should be resolved as fixed and be done.
> Provide better syntax for converting XML entities
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: VELOCITY-391
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELOCITY-391
> Project: Velocity
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Engine
> Affects Versions: 1.4
> Environment: Operating System: All
> Platform: Other
> Reporter: bob.tarling
> Priority: Minor
>
> I'm using velocity to persist my applications data in XML format. The problem is
> with converting special XML characters to entities.
> I have read the developers guide here
> http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/developer-guide.html#Velocity%20and%20XML
> I'm wondering if the developers would consider some addition to the velocity
> syntax to help with this instead. I can't help think that generation of XML must
> be a common requirement for velocity users and a shortcut syntax would help keep
> templates looking neater.
> How about the likes of the following to display a field with automatic
> conversion of XML characters to entities.
> <p>The clients name is $&clientName</p>
> So the client name John O'Connor becomes
> <p>The clients name is John O'Connor</p>
> There are alternatives, such as having a specific file type.
> e.g. .xvm as opposed to .vm
> A secondary advantage to this is that syntax highlighters could be devised to
> recognise and highlight both the XML and the template code.
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