Feature Proposal: New ENTITY Variable

Motivation

There is already a %ENCODE{ "..." type="entity" }% variable to entity-encode variables, which is used for example to properly escape content intended for html input fields. There is a possibility that the encoding fails in case the to-be-encoded text happens to have a sequence like "something" type="url" some more". E.g. the text could have a sequence that terminates the text early with a quote, followed by some text that confuses the ENCODE (or higher level content).

Description and Documentation

Add a new %ENTITY{...}% variable that does the same as %ENCODE{ "..." type="entity" }%. This avoids the potential issue of early termination of text if it contains a double quote.

Examples

Equivalents:

• %ENCODE{ "%title{ default="" }%" type="entity" }%
• %ENTITY{%title{ default="" }%}%

Impact

Implementation

-- Contributors: PeterThoeny - 2012-10-23

Discussion

Accepted by JerusalemReleaseMeeting2012x10x26

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-10-26

This is now implemented and documented in SVN trunk.

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-10-26