Hi!
I found a bug in wml pass 7 and like to have it confirmed that my
interpretation is correct before filing a bugreport. Given that Denis
reads here anyway and he is the maintainer for the package I guess he
should know if he likes a bugreport for it and have it documented there.
It seems like this bug appears due to a feature that was built in. To
be a little bit more precise about what's going on:
In line 78 of english/template/debian/todoitem.wml:
<a href=<get-var url/>><get-var urlname/></a>
Now take the line from 80ddtp.wml:
<item url="../../intl/l10n/po-debconf/" urlname="po-debconf translation center">
I've left out the unneccecary data for this problem. This would be
rendered up until pass 6 as:
<item url=../../intl/l10n/po-debconf/>po-debconf translation center</a>
pass 7 changes it to:
<item url="../../intl/l10n/po-debconf"/>po-debconf translation center</a>
This seems to have been done as feature for xhtml conformance things
but raises problems in here.
A quick workaround for us would be to change the line 78 in
todoitem.wml like this:
-<a href=<get-var url/>><get-var urlname/></a>
+<a href="<get-var url/>"><get-var urlname/></a>
That way we won't depend on pass 7 to get the quotes and avoid this
imho unexpectable 'feature'.
I'll commit the changes to the todoitem.wml which is a good thing[tm]
anyway. But I guess this should be corrected or rather de-featurized or
whatever in wml anyway.
I guess it is quite clear what I am talking about and I have included
all the informations needed. Thanks.
Ah yes, also took a quick look at the wml_p7_htmlfix script that does
that. I think the line that this happens in is 288 (version 2.0.8-5,
current unstable):
$tag =~ s@([A-Za-z_-]+=)([^\s\"\'><\[]+)(\s|/?>)@$1"$2"$3@sg;
^^
This seems to be the place where this happens. Maybe we could also
workaround by using the following:
-<a href=<get-var url/>><get-var urlname/></a>
+<a href=<get-var url/> ><get-var urlname/></a>
That is, adding a space should workaround the problem, too -- if we
really like to depend on pass 7 rather than do it right[tm] in the first
place....
So long,
Alfie [why must it be always me to find such bug^Wproblems....]
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