HTML Characters in Presentation templates

frbcraig

I am importing xml files into teamsite, setting the ea's to make them into dcrs, using a presentation template to create an XML file that is then deployed out to another server. The problem I'm encountering occurs when there are characters like "& a m p;" embedded in the dcr fields. These characters are being converted into "&" and then xml file that is deployed does not work because the xml is failing due to "&" and not & a m p;:

For example:
Input: This & a m p; That

Output: This & That


Code being used to output the data:

my $linkslinkname = iwpt_dcr_value('rlinks.linkname');
$out .= "\n";
$out .= "".$linkslinkname."\n";
$out .= "\n";


How can I keep the data from being converted???

nipper

Do something like this

[html]

use HTML::Entities;
$textField = HTML::Entities::encode_entities(iwpt_dcr_value('TextField'));

{iw_value name='$textField'/}
[/html]