Forums / Setup & design / Apostrophe not working in xml field
Ivan Imanishi
Tuesday 26 August 2003 12:13:25 pm
Hello, I've been having some problems with apostrophe in xml fields. Whenever I use it the content is lost. For example: <link href='http://somesite.com'> doesn't work, and becomes:<link href=''>
The same code using quotes work perfectly.
Ideas?
Thank you,
Ivan
ben m
Tuesday 26 August 2003 12:26:24 pm
I'm experiencing a similar problem in 3.1-1 where my quotation marks are all being converted to question marks (?). Is this a magic quotes issue? I couldn't find any similar posts in the forum... thanks!Ben
Alex Jones
Tuesday 26 August 2003 12:37:51 pm
Make sure you aren't pasting content copied from a Microsoft Office product. The XML fields and some Web browsers don't recognize the curly quotes and apostrophes that MS products use in place of the straight variants.
Alex
Alex [ bald_technologist on the IRC channel (irc.freenode.net): #eZpublish ] <i>When in doubt, clear the cache.</i>
Tuesday 26 August 2003 1:46:20 pm
It's not a problem with copy and paste from office (though I have experienced that problem too). The problem occurs even when typing the text directly into the browser. In fact, when i first noticed the problem i began using quotes instead. And the link worked. But whenever I edited the article, the system would replace the quotes for apostrophes automaticaly in the text field. So, if I just publish the article, the link would be lost. I then edited the kernel so that it would not use apostrophes when rebuilding the link tag.This has made it possible for me to use the system, but I still have to avoid using apostrophes, which should not be the case.