[vtkusers] Contributing text files to the Wiki

[Moreland, Kenneth]

That's what I have been doing, using the <pre> tags.  But like I said,
it's inconvenient.  And now I have recently run into a problem.  If
there is something like &lt; in the text, it is converted to < (probably
to give you a way around inserting a </pre> tag.

 

Unfortunately, I am trying to post an XML file with snippets of C-like
code in it.  The code has dozens of < and > operators in it, and they
are all converted to &lt; and &rt; so that they do not interfere with
the XML format.  However, when I post the XML to a Wiki page, the &lt;
and &rt; are resolved by the browser, which invalidates the XML file.

 

I really don't want to go through my files and convert all the &lt; to
&amp;lt;.  I just want to upload the damn file.

 

-Ken

 

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From: David Cole [mailto:david.cole at kitware.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 8:40 AM
To: Moreland, Kenneth
Cc: vtkusers at vtk.org
Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Contributing text files to the Wiki

 

Well... I don't know about submitted files, but I do know you can
usually prevent the grief associated with the special html characters
when you embed the text by enclosing it with "<pre>" and "</pre>" (the
html pre-formatted tag). 

I did that when I posted the script section of this Wiki page:
http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Useful_Variables/Get_Variables_From_CMak
e_Dashboards ...and it seems to have preserved the special characters as
I intended.

The only thing you have to worry about is if your text includes "</pre>"
-- then you have some manual edits.

I think you can also fool the Wiki into accepting an uploaded text file
simply by giving it a ".jpg" extension when uploaded... That's also
inconvenient, though. 

HTH,
David

On 12/4/06, Moreland, Kenneth <kmorel at sandia.gov> wrote:

I've been trying to commit text-based files to the Kitware Wiki such as
cmake files and xml material files.  Of course, the upload file feature
does not let me upload files of these types.  I've resorted to embedding

the files in a regular Wiki page.  However, this solution is
inconvenient for both uploading and downloading the file.  It has also
been giving me a lot of grief about special html characters like '<',
'>', and '&'. 

Could someone add the file extensions .txt, .cmake, and .xml, as well as
any other relevant text types, to the accepted list of Wiki uploads.  Or
does someone have a better solution?

-Ken

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