Re: [wml] [wml] Problems with quotes, mp4h and ePerl

[Fritz Zaucker <nospam@thanx>]

> On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 12:40:07AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:

> > In conclusion, it is important to understand these points:
> >  * Quotes are used to group words in tag attributes.
> >  * It is impossible to determine whether double quotes are used to group
> >    words or must be printed on output.  For this reason, they are always
> >    removed from output when in attributes (this is a convention).

> [Fritz, i did not check yesterday how huge your attachment was.
> Please limit posts to this mailing-list to ~10Ko.]

Ok, didn't realize myself ... there wasn't really a reason to send the
whole stuff, except my frustration after 3 hours of trying to find the
problem ...  ;-)

> There may be an alternative, let innermost tag decide if quotes must be
> removed, and outer tags do not suppress remaining quotes.  This is
> performed by the patch below.
> With this patch, wml rebuilds your site (i did not check if it does it
> right).

> I fear there are some side effects, so it needs more testing.
> But if it works, there is no more problems with quotes and ePerl ;-)

This seems indeed to break something else:

/usr/pack/wml-2.0.2-za/bin/wml -n -o ethz.html ethz.wml
ePerl:Error: Perl parsing error (interpreter rc=2)

---- Contents of STDERR channel: ---------
Scalar found where operator expected at /tmp/wml.9786.tmp1.wml line 813, at end of line
        (Missing operator before ?)
syntax error at /tmp/wml.9786.tmp1.wml line 813, near """ $perl_var1 "
BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at /tmp/wml.9786.tmp1.wml line 846.
------------------------------------------


I'll just use the work around you suggested last night. Thanks again
for your help,

Fritz

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