HTML Samples

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 10:38:10AM -0500, Pete Murray wrote:
> Open the attached HTML document using any HTML editor.  
> You will notice a group of &fp??? throughout the page.
> 
> As you review the attached processing table, you will
> notice that the parsing routine looks for "&fp" on each
> line of the HTML document to plug-in the field and/or
> variable marked by these macros or filePro tags.
> 
> I chose to use "&fp" as a prefix simply because I did
> not think it would ever be used in XML, DHTML nor HTML
> on tags thus preventing potential conflicts.

If you modify that jsut slightly, to &fp???; (adding the semicolon at
the end) then if any of them ever do leak through, they'll be parsed as
unknown entity references and eaten by the browser -- without the
semicolon, I'm not sure exactly how they'd work, since I think they're
then syntax errors.

Cheers,
-- jra
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