[opencms-dev] 5.0.1 escapes all < and > into entities when editing

[Claus Priisholm]

Found a solution to my problem:

> 5.0.1 running Mac OS X 10.3.6, Java 1.4.2, Tomcat 5.0.19, MySQL 4.0.18

The above combo did not work (as explained below), using Tomcat 5.0.25 
fixed the problem.

Claus

On 30/1-2005, at 15.05, Claus Priisholm wrote:

> Hi
>
> Got a problem on a machine that had to be rebuild from a backup - 
> according to the ISP it has been restored from the backup, so 
> everything should be as it was.
>
> Unfortunately this is not the case - when an existing page is edited 
> all the HTML tags are "escaped" into entities.
> E.g. typing the following into the source code editor:
>
> <![CDATA[<p>test</p>]]>
>
> becomes, once saved and revisited looks like:
>
> <p>test</p>
>
> The problem is at that point evident in the bodies file as well.
>
> Pages that hasn't been altered since the restoration of the system, do 
> look okay in the bodies file (i.e. has the CDATA stuff and < > where 
> one would expect) - but once opened in the editor (source and/or 
> WYSIWYG) shows up as "escaped". When displayed on the site they look 
> okay so the "escaping" only happens when opening the page in one of 
> the editors.
>
> I seem to recall someone reporting something similar, just haven't 
> found the key to look it up in the mailing list archive, so maybe the 
> collective memory of the list members can point me in the direction
>
> System 5.0.1 running Mac OS X 10.3.6, Java 1.4.2-38, Tomcat 5.0.19, 
> MySQL 4.0.18.
>
> Upon start up OpenCms reports "OpenCms encoding", "System 
> file.encoding" and "Encoding set to" as ISO-8859-1, so that much seems 
> ok. And the it has been patched to work with Tomcat 5x version of 
> Xerces.
>
> Thanks
> Claus
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