Re: HTML::Element bug

Gisle Aas (gisle@aas.no)
06 Jan 1998 09:53:44 +0100 

sswartwo@mcgraw-hill.com writes:

>      The following:
>      
>         use HTML::Element;
>      
>         my $e = new HTML::Element( 'a',
>           'href' => 'http://cgi-foo/foo.cgi?A=B&C=D' );
>      
>         print $e->starttag( );
>      
>      Generates:
>      
>         <A HREF="http://cgi-foo/foo.cgi?A=B&amp;C=D">
>      
>      This is a case where I don't want the & encoded...

Why not?

I know, it looks too ugly.  With Unicode coming our way there is a
increasing probability that the form key behind a '&' in a query will
be interpreted as an entity.

At some time Netscape even interpreted <a href="foo?foo=bar&regular=1">foo</a>
as <a href="foo?foo=bar&ular=1">foo</a> which was clearly bad.  You live
safer is the '&' is encoded.

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Gisle Aas


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>                  <TD>
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Gisle Aas


unless $context eq "void";
print "ok 1\n";

$a = context();
print "not " unless $context eq "scalar";
print "ok 2\n";

@a = context();
print "not " unless $context eq "array";
print "ok 3\n";



sub foo { return context(); }
sub bar { foo(); }

bar();
print "not " unless $context eq "void";
print "ok 4\n";

$a = bar();
print "not " unless $context eq "scalar";
print "ok 5\n";

@a = bar();
print "not " unless $context eq "array";
print "ok 6\n";