Subject: Re: WWW query engine bug (was Query-PR)
To: None <Chris_G_Demetriou@NIAGARA.NECTAR.CS.CMU.EDU>
From: David Leonard <leonard@dstc.edu.au>
List: current-users
Date: 02/21/1996 14:05:32
>
> > Notice the <i> should have been turned into <i> but wasn't. As a
> > result, a spurious begin-italics code appears and three characters of
> > the PR disappear.
>
> The problem with this is, "how do you do it correctly?"
>
> It's nice to allow people to include html, e.g. anchors to their home
> pages' URLs, in PRs, and have them come out as real html on the Web.
> In fact, i went to a great deal of work to fix things so that only
> valid tags were allowed, etc...
>
> But the question is: how can you tell 'intentional' html from
> something that just looks like HTML? (and, what impact does that have
> on the software used to spit out PRs?)
Force people to insert <HTML>...</HTML> around their text if they
dont want tags to be converted to &, < and >.
--
David Leonard Project Officer, DSTC
The University of Queensland david.leonard@dstc.edu.au
http://www.dstc.edu.au/WP/staff/david-leonard.html