Hey everyone, While using XWiki version 1.1.2.5797 to document some software, the following problem occurred: I tried to insert snippets of a XSL file into a XWiki page using a {code} macro. As far as I know this macro treats input as plaintext, which would be exactly what I need. However, it turned out to work differently. It parsed HTML entities, so instead of displaying inputs like &lt;!ENTITY Auml &quot;&amp;#196;&quot;&gt; exactly as they are, the HTML parts are parsed to <!ENTITY Auml "&#196;"> Having failed with the {code} macro, I tried {pre} and \, but none of them worked. The same problem occurred when I used XWiki 1.7 which is running on a test server in the company I work for. Does anyone of you know how to make XWiki display HTML and XML entities as plaintext? I could not find anything about this problem in the documentation, the FAQ, or in the mailing list archive. Did I simply miss something? Since I read some threads about issues with the WYSIWYG editor, let me add that I use the XWiki editor, not the WYSIWYG editor. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Best regards, Sascha

Vincent Massol wrote: No, that's not the problem. He tried to enter: {code} &lt;!ENTITY Auml &quot;&amp;#196;&quot;&gt; {code} which was displayed as <!ENTITY Auml "&#196"> and not as &lt;!ENTITY Auml &quot;&amp;#196;&quot;&gt; Which means that we do escape < and >, but no &. Do we want that? Is it something all users want and need? I'll be -1 for changing this, since it will break non-UTF instances that need to print non-ISO-8859-1 symbols in a {code} block. Sascha, you could double-escape, like in: {code} &amp;lt;!ENTITY Auml &amp;quot;&amp;amp;#196;&amp;quot;&amp;gt; {code} I know it's more hard work, but it's a working workaround.

> And it worked well: > > http://playground.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Test/VMA > > (note: this link will be reset tomorrow but just edit the page and > copy the input to recreate it) > > Thanks > -Vincent > > On Nov 10, 2008, at 5:03 PM, berkessel(a)uni-koblenz.de wrote: > >> Hey everyone, >> While using XWiki version 1.1.2.5797 to document some software, the >> following problem occurred: >> I tried to insert snippets of a XSL file into a XWiki page using a >> {code} >> macro. As far as I know this macro treats input as plaintext, which >> would >> be exactly what I need. However, it turned out to work >> differently. It >> parsed HTML entities, so instead of displaying inputs like >> &lt;!ENTITY Auml &quot;&amp;#196;&quot;&gt; >> exactly as they are, the HTML parts are parsed to >> <!ENTITY Auml "&#196;"> >> Having failed with the {code} macro, I tried {pre} and \, but none >> of them >> worked. The same problem occurred when I used XWiki 1.7 which is >> running >> on a test server in the company I work for. Does anyone of you know >> how to >> make XWiki display HTML and XML entities as plaintext? >> I could not find anything about this problem in the documentation, >> the >> FAQ, or in the mailing list archive. Did I simply miss something? >> Since I >> read some threads about issues with the WYSIWYG editor, let me add >> that I >> use the XWiki editor, not the WYSIWYG editor. >> Any help would be greatly appreciated! >> >> Best regards, >> Sascha

Thank you very much, Vincent and Sergiu! Sergiu, the workaround you suggested is perfect. But you were right, it was quite a bunch of work :-) One more question came up: Shall I share this piece of information as a FAQ on xwiki.org? I'm not sure, because the XWiki 2.0 Syntax offers a more efficient workaround for versions 1.7 and up. Hence, the workaround for older versions might be outdated. What do you think?