[opencms-dev] Escaping commas as delimiters

[Claus Priisholm]

The problem is that the individual values are not escaped. Ideally your 
example value should end up something like this in the XML file: 
'"A","B,B1"' (or a similar approach to escape special characters). As it 
is, you cannot have values with commas without getting into trouble.

Michael Varshavsky wrote:
> I'm running into an interesting problem that I'm guessing must have 
> surfaced before...
> 
> I've got an element in my XSD which is associated w/ a 
> MultiSelectWidget. That allows users to select multiple strings to serve 
> as a value for that particular element.
> Those multiple values are stored underneath as comma separated values.
> 
> e.g.
> 
> Products
> ---A
> ---B
> ---C
> 
> if first two products are selected and the document is saved, in control 
> code underneath it gets saved as 'A,B'
> The problem arises when one of the product names has a comma in its 
> description
>   
> 
> 
> Products
> ---A
> ---B,B1
> ---C
>      
> now in the control code underneath, it is saved with 'A,B,B1'.
> Obviously that blurs the line between having two options 'A' and 'B,B1' 
> and three options 'A', 'B', and 'B1' which creates problems when I try 
> to search for things later.
> 
> I tried replacing commas w/ unicode values but that didn't work.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
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