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RAP MarkUp containing & character [message #1239478]

Tue, 04 February 2014 09:38

John Gymer

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Setting a Label with value:
<a href='http://www.iet.co.uk?a=1&b=2' target='_blank'>IET Classic Planes Ltd</a>
...and MarkUp in RAP causes a crash because of the & ampersand character:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Failed to parse markup text
at org.eclipse.swt.internal.widgets.MarkupValidator.validate(MarkupValidator.java:60)
...
caused by:
...
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The reference to entity "b" must end with the ';' delimiter.
...

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Re: RAP MarkUp containing & character [message #1239492 is a reply to message #1239478]

Tue, 04 February 2014 09:56

Ralf Sternberg

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RAP is a bit picky about well-formed XML. But actually, it's right, the
ampersand needs to be encoded in the URL to be a valid attribute value.

"http://www.iet.co.uk?a=1&b=2"
"http://www.iet.co.uk?a=1&b=2"

HTH, Ralf

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Re: RAP MarkUp containing & character [message #1239499 is a reply to message #1239492]

Tue, 04 February 2014 10:14

John Gymer

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Thanks Ralf, I should have thought of that, as we are already doing it when creating out XML!
It means that our XML has 2-levels of the & format:

<stdstx><a href='http://www.iet.co.uk?a=1&amp;b=2' target='_blank'>IET Classic Planes Ltd</a></stdstx>

Looks odd, but makes sense - thanks for your help!
John

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