Re: [xwiki-users] Problems with links

Hi Claudio, ccoreggioli wrote: First of all thanks for your investigation. The behavior you experience is caused by the fact that the HTML content is not properly serialized before being submitted. The real question is: what prevents the editor from properly serializing the content on IE7? Let me give you a few technical details to understand what happens. When you edit a wiki page its content (XWiki 2.0 syntax usually) is rendered to XHTML and fed to the WYSIWYG editor. This XHTML input is a bit special because it contains some meta data in form of XML comments. In order to protect this comments during editing the editor moves them inside attributes (thus the metadata attribute). Before the content is submitted the editor moves back the meta data from attributes to XML comments. "Before the content is submitted" usually means "when the rich text area looses the focus". After the HTML content (the editor output) is submitted it is cleaned and then converted to wiki syntax. It looks like the cleaner messes up the content if the meta data is not restored (i.e. the metadata attribute is present) but this is not the problem because the metadata attribute shouldn't be present in the submitted content. Now two questions: (1) Does this happen if you switch to Source tab instead of clicking Save & View ? (2) Does this happen on IE8 with IE7 mode? (you can change the mode from Tools/Developers Tools and click on "Browser Mode: IE8" and choose "Internet Explorer 7") Thanks, Marius