bug in HTML tag parsing

[anonymous]

If a message is quoted in an HTML box as follows:

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<div style="height:150px; overflow:auto; border: 1px solid #000000"> <pre> From: John Doe <jdoe@…> Subject: Test

This is a test message. </pre> </div>

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then there is a problem in that the <jdoe@…> part is interpreted as an HTML tag, although it should not be, since it is between <pre></pre> tags. As a result, the error "HTML parsing error: malformed start tag" is generated by trac.

[anonymous]

If not already clear, the complete wiki code used for the test case is:

From: John Doe 

[Christian Boos]

<pre> blocks are not the way to quote special HTML characters. Use &lt;, &gt; and &amp; for that.

e.g.

{{{
#!html
<div style="height:150px; overflow:auto; border: 1px solid #000000"> 
<pre> 
From: John Doe &lt;jdoe@yahoo.com&gt; 
Subject: Test

This is a test message. </pre> </div> 
}}}

which renders as:

 
From: John Doe <jdoe@yahoo.com> 
Subject: Test

This is a test message. 

[anonymous]

I would add, however, that this is rather inconvenient. If one wants simply to copy and paste an email, or any text for that matter which may happen to have < > pairs in it, into a scrollable textbox, there is no easy way to do this outside of manually modifying each "invalid" < > pair.

[Christian Boos]

Maybe in this case, a more convenient alternative would be:

{{{
#!html
<div style="height:150px; overflow:auto; border: 1px solid #000000"> 
<pre> 
}}}
From: John Doe <jdoe@yahoo.com> 
Subject: Test

This is a test message. 
{{{
#!html
</pre>
</div>
}}}

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Which renders as:

 

From: John Doe <jdoe@…> 
Subject: Test


This is a test message.