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GabrysGabrys wrote on 30 Dec 2009 13:51

Purpose: the purpose of universal escaping is ability to display ANY text in browser. Now it's almost possible using @@, but you can't easily put @@ inside of such text. You can put almost any text inside of [[code]] block, but you can't put there [[/code]] and so…

The proposed solution is to introduce two new syntax entities: @< and >@. Between them you can put any text provided you first:

  • convert each "&" to "&amp;"
  • convert each "<" to "&lt;"
  • convert each ">" to "&gt;"

(this is also known as HTML escaping).

This will work for single lines only. This means if you have a block of a few lines to escape, you need to escape each line in the block separately.

Using this technique, you can put ANY text on your site, for example:

|---------------------------|----------------------------|
| What you want:            | What you write to get it:  |
|---------------------------|----------------------------|
| code @@ example           | @<code @@ example>@        |
| @@code example@@          | @<@@code example@@>@       |
| @<code example>@          | @<@&lt;code example&gt;@>@ |
|---------------------------|----------------------------|

You can also put so called HTML entities (including all UTF-8 characters) inside of "@<" and ">@", like "&copy;", to get the copyright sign ("©") without searching for it in a char table or in the Internet.

Live example:

@<U umlaut: &#252;>@
@<[[code]]>@
@<Hello world @@ !!!!>@
@<Something **not** bold>@
@<[[module ListPages]]>@
@<Copyright sign: &copy;>@
@<[[/code]]>@
Works @<inline as>@ well
This way you can escape universal escaping tokens: @<@&lt;>@ and @<&gt;@>@

In action:

U umlaut: ü
[[code]]
Hello world @@ !!!!
Something **not** bold
[[module ListPages]]
Copyright sign: ©
[[/code]]
Works inline as well
This way you can escape universal escaping tokens: @< and >@


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