Actually, the problem is that these are labels in a select widget, which are being populated via an IS_IN_DB validator. In the IS_IN_DB validator, the "label" argument is a string, so the value from the selected row gets converted to a string, regardless of whether it is an XML object via filter_out (see http://code.google.com/p/web2py/source/browse/gluon/validators.py#473). A simple solution is just to change the "label" argument to a callable that converts the label to an XML object:
IS_IN_DB(db, db.regions.id, lambda r: XML(r.region), orderby='sort_order',multiple =True) That should do what you want and is simpler than my earlier solution (also, in that solution, it wasn't necessary to wrap the _value attributes in XML because those would just be integer id's in this case anyway). Anthony On Monday, September 3, 2012 6:34:48 PM UTC-4, Jose C wrote: > > You can also try >> >> import cgi >> db.table.field.filter_in = lambda text: cgi.escape(text) #1 >> >> db.table.field.filter_out = lambda text: XML(text) #2 >> > > Hi Massimo, thanks for your reply. filter_out sounds like it could be an > even more elegant way of achieving this. However I tested option 2 (placed > code in model file, even restarted server for good luck) but it doesn't > seem to have any effect (with version 2.0.6). The output is still > escaped. > > filter_out is definitely working, because: > db.table.field.filter_out = lambda text: text + 'xxx' > has the desired effect, however the XML function doesn't do anything. > > I'll delve into it in more detail tomorrow and look into the source as I > see the filter_ options are new to 2.0. > > > --
