Tim van der Leeuw wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> A colleague has decided to keep his django database string values (which >> are xml >> fragments) in an xml escaped form to avoid having the problem of escaping >> them >> when they are used in templates etc etc. >> >> Unfortunately he found that the normal admin doesn't escape on the way >> through >> so thought of adding a standard mechanism to the save methods. However, >> this >> brings in the possibility of escaping twice ie once in his original >> capture code >> and then in the django save methods. >> > > Well -- you escape them in the save() method only when they contain XML > charachters like <, > ? How about that, wouldn't that work? > > --Tim > ...... That might work, but there are all the ampersands etc etc to consider as well. So an escaped string could contain &, but so can a raw string. -- Robin Becker
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