Patch: Recognise line feeds in XML text fields

Monday 10 February 2003 11:51:12 pm

> I've created and submitted a patch to recognise linefeeds in
> XML text fields and render these as <br /> in the
> final output.
>
> It is availiable at
> http://developer.ez.no/bug/bugview/1870/

Sorry.. feel stupid, but where should it go?

Thursday 13 February 2003 6:08:26 am

> I've created and submitted a patch to recognise linefeeds in
> XML text fields and render these as <br /> in the
> final output.
>
> It is availiable at
> http://developer.ez.no/bug/bugview/1870/

This patch will break the XML format since it introduces a new tag br which will not be supported by the standard eZ publish format.
New tags such as this must be stored as a custom tag, you should create a new input handler and output viewer for XML if you want to preserve newlines in this way.
The next release features support for xml input/output handlers in extensions which should be used for this feature.

I also recommend not using a single br tag(as stored format), it's not a structured tag but rather a visual processing instructions. A better solution is to use a line tag(as custom tag) which wraps around the text which should be on a line.
<line>this is some text</line>
vs
this is some text<br/>

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Thursday 13 February 2003 2:41:17 pm

Hi Jan

Thanks for the info.

> > I've created and submitted a patch to recognise linefeeds
> in
> > XML text fields and render these as <br /> in the
> > final output.
> >
> > It is availiable at
> > http://developer.ez.no/bug/bugview/1870/
>
> This patch will break the XML format since it introduces a
> new tag br which will not be supported by the standard eZ
> publish format.

I guess this raises some questions.

Will the eZ team be adding the ability to insert line breaks (not paragraph breaks) into the core program (It seems that this will not be the case from your message)?

Is the DTD that ezPublish is using availiable? Is it based on any existing standards?

> New tags such as this must be stored as a custom tag, you
> should create a new input handler and output viewer for XML
> if you want to preserve newlines in this way.

I would have though that this would be a very common requirment. We are currently developing a number of sites using eZpublish3 and on all occasions clients asked for this ability. Thay have ben quite confused that it is not there. (it was in ezPublish 2 I think?)

> The next release features support for xml input/output
> handlers in extensions which should be used for this
> feature.
>
> I also recommend not using a single br tag(as stored
> format), it's not a structured tag but rather a visual
> processing instructions. A better solution is to use a line
> tag(as custom tag) which wraps around the text which should
> be on a line.
> <line>this is some text</line>
> vs
> this is some text<br/>

If I modify the patch to work in the way you suggest would it then be considered for addition to the core distribution?

This is one feature that needs to be available without the need for data entry staff to enter tags. i.e. it needs to be automatically handled by ezpublish.

On a related note - will there be a desktop version availiable for eZ Publish3 and if so, is there a time-frame on it's availability?

Thanks
Bruce

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Monday 10 March 2003 7:04:33 pm

this batch didnt do anything for me, didnt even show up in html output.

Monday 10 March 2003 7:04:33 pm

this batch didnt do anything for me, didnt even show up in html output.

Monday 10 March 2003 7:04:33 pm

this batch didnt do anything for me, didnt even show up in html output.

Monday 10 March 2003 7:04:33 pm

this batch didnt do anything for me, didnt even show up in html output.