Bug 100751

Summary:	silent truncation when HTML::Template tags are used for links
Product:	[Applications] kimagemapeditor	Reporter:	mark
Component:	general	Assignee:	Jan Schaefer <j_schaef>
Status:	ASSIGNED ---
Severity:	minor
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mandrake RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description mark 2005-03-03 17:23:34 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.3.1)
Installed from:    Mandrake RPMs
OS:                Linux

Hello,

I'm using the Perl module called 'HTML::Template' to generate dynamic links for use with this image map. By default the links look like this:

 href="<tmpl_var cfg_instance_cgi>/search_results_by_state"

Although the final result is valid HTML, clearly this is not. 

KImageMapEditor does not handle this gracefully. What happens is that the link appears to 
be changed to this:

 <tmpl_var cfg_instance_cgi

I would prefer that KImageMapEditor accept the contents of my href="" attribute, or at least give me some notice that it won't accept them. 

Simply rewriting them in a truncated way is not good. 

Thanks!

BTW, I like you provide thumbnails of each "hot spot"!

  Mark

Comment 1 Jan Schaefer 2005-11-11 22:28:35 UTC

Currently the HTML parser is hand-coded. It is a bit difficult to handle invalid cases, so I would not like to implement these by myself. I will see whether I can use an existing HTML parser instead, that is more robust against malformed HTML.

Comment 2 Justin Zobel 2021-03-09 23:51:06 UTC

Thank you for the bug report.

As this report hasn't seen any changes in 5 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists.

If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to resolved.