[WWdevel] Re: [WWcvs] webwork-modperl: Commented out escapeHTML() of warning messages since it

[Samuel Hathaway]

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Mike Gage via activitymail wrote:

> Commented out escapeHTML() of warning messages since it prevented
> using tables when outputing info about answer evaluators.
>
> Can someone tell me whether there is another reason why not allowing
> HTML in warning messages is or would be important?  If so we can
> figure out another way to debug answer evaluators.

The intent is not to prohibit HTML in warning messages but to allow the
literal display of characters like '<' and '&' in warnings.

It's going to be a problem if we need to pass HTML through the warning
facility, since there would be no way for the warning handler to
differentiate between a warning that just happened to use characters like
'<' and '&' (say, generated by Perl), and a warning that has purposeful
HTML in it that ought to be passed through unmolested.
-sam