[mapguide-trac] #1682: HTML links in data fail to display correctly

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#1682: HTML links in data fail to display correctly
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   Reporter:  martinmorrison  |       Owner:       
       Type:  defect          |      Status:  new  
   Priority:  high            |   Milestone:       
  Component:  General         |     Version:  2.2.0
   Severity:  critical        |    Keywords:       
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 With the AJAX viewer html anchor tags (hyperlinks) do not display
 correctly in the properties pane.  In 2.02 hyperlinks worked.  You could
 place html anchor tags in the data and they displayed as clickable
 hyperlinks in the properties window.  With 2.2 I see the anchor tags in
 the properties window, not the links.  There was a reference to this issue
 in this thread...
 http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Hyperlinks-in-Properties-pane-of-
 Ajax-viewer-td5480165.html  When I look at what is coming to the browser
 in Firebug I see escaped data, e.g. &lt rather than <.

 I have managed to get the links working, however now it does not comply
 with standard html practices.  The half hack was to add the following line
 to propertyctrl.templ.

 *******************LINE TO ADD****************************
   code = code.replace(/&lt;/gi,'<').replace(/&gt;/gi,'>');
 **********************************************************

 The function to add it to is: SetProperties()  It goes just before the
 line "  SetContent(code);".  This is a hack.  It is NOT a correct fix.  It
 should be passed correctly from the server.  This does cause other issues.
 E.g. this does not decode quotes, spaces etc from URL's.  In order for
 this to work I had to remove from my data quotes from the URL.

 Old -> <a href="/propcards/036680.pdf" target="_blank">Click Here(PDF)</a>

 New -> <a href=/propcards/036680.pdf target="_blank">Click Here(PDF)</a>

 Both are valid HTML.  MapGuide should be able to handle the quotes in the
 href= statement.  We should not be doing a javascript hack and changing
 data to get this to work correctly.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/ticket/1682>
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