Bug: Expanding SEP in Formatted Search is Broken

Expanding SEP in a formatted search results in broken formatting due to using < in the opening span tag

Test case

This code:

%SEARCH{ "DickFurnas" web="all" scope="text" nosearch="on" nosummary="on"  nototal="on" regex="off" order="modified" reverse="on" limit="10" header=" %SEP% " format=" [[$web.$topic]] %SEP% "}%

Should look like this (Which uses a literal |):

| Codev.TWikiOnMacOSX | Codev.TWikiOnMacOSXJaguar | Codev.VariableExpansionBugInFormattedSearch | Codev.TWikiOnMacOSXPanther | Codev.BugInfiniteRecursionInSearch | Codev.PagesDoNotValidate | | Main.WebStatistics | Main.TWikiCommunityGroup | Main.DickFurnas | Main.DickFurnasLeftBar | Main.TWikiUsersAtoD | | Plugins.WebStatistics | Plugins.TWikiDotNetForumAppAddOnDev | Plugins.DiffWordByWordAddOnAppraisal | Plugins.DiffWordByWordAddOnDev | Plugins.LatexModePluginDevArchive | Plugins.LatexModePluginAppraisal | | Sandbox.DickFurnasSandbox | | Support.HowToViewRawText |

And currently looks like this ( uses %SEP% in place of |):

 |  Codev.TWikiOnMacOSX  |  Codev.TWikiOnMacOSXJaguar  |  Codev.VariableExpansionBugInFormattedSearch  |  Codev.TWikiOnMacOSXPanther  |  Codev.BugInfiniteRecursionInSearch  |  Codev.PagesDoNotValidate  |   |  Main.WebStatistics  |  Main.TWikiCommunityGroup  |  Main.DickFurnas  |  Main.DickFurnasLeftBar  |  Main.TWikiUsersAtoD  |   |  Plugins.WebStatistics  |  Plugins.TWikiDotNetForumAppAddOnDev  |  Plugins.DiffWordByWordAddOnAppraisal  |  Plugins.DiffWordByWordAddOnDev  |  Plugins.LatexModePluginDevArchive  |  Plugins.LatexModePluginAppraisal  |   |  Sandbox.DickFurnasSandbox  |   |  Support.HowToViewRawText  | 

Environment

-- DickFurnas - 12 Jan 2006

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Discussion

I'm actually not sure if it is the same issue with LatexModePlugin but I have encountered a similar problem involving entity translation of what should have been a closing bracket for an image tag.

-- DickFurnas - 12 Jan 2006