preservechars attribute in clean HTML

The document of visual format at page 227 says:

For example, to prevent the .less than. (<) and .greater
than. (>) characters from being converted to their
character references, enter
preservechars value="<>"

I dont want my "< and ">" tags to be converted to <gt;

So i tried using this <clean charencode="charref" cr="cr" lf="lf" showonsize="5000" preferfonttag="false" reducetags="true" preservechars="<>;"/>
in my visualformatconfig.xml.But still the characters are converted .

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conmgmt

did this work for you? .. I am trying the same thing.

LooseCannon

FYI,
The character "<" is illegal in XML. The parser interprets it as the start of a new element. So you need to convert the symbol to it's Entity Name "<" or Entity Number "<".

Johnny

Why do you need to do this?...

It is stored as escaped characters in the DCR.
But when you access them through the templating API it is converted back.

John Cuiuli
Consultant
Sydney, Australia

LooseCannon

>>Why do you need to do this?..

Who is this question addressed to?

Johnny

Sorry the question is to the original poster.

Im curious to find out the situation.

Even though they may be stored as escaped characters in the DCR, the presentation API will present them in their original form.

If its not the case, maybe there is some other problem here

John Cuiuli
Consultant
Sydney, Australia