[vtkusers] Contributing text files to the Wiki

[Berk Geveci]

This should work now.

-berk

On 12/5/06, Moreland, Kenneth <kmorel at sandia.gov> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> -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
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> 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).
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>  I did that when I posted the script section of this Wiki page:
> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Useful_Variables/Get_Variables_From_CMake_Dashboards
> ...and it seems to have preserved the special characters as I intended.
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>  The only thing you have to worry about is if your text includes "</pre>" --
> then you have some manual edits.
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>  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.
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>  HTH,
>  David
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> On 12/4/06, Moreland, Kenneth <kmorel at sandia.gov> wrote:
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> 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 '&'.
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>  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?
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>  -Ken
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