[TYPO3-core] RFC #7984: Bug: stdWrap.crop now closes opened tags and counts chars correctly

[Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]]

Martin Kutschker wrote: on 06.04.2008 14:53:

>> There are two possible scenarios:
>> 1) "blah <foobar> whatever" is parsed with parseFunc, then it will be
>> counted as will be counted as "blah <foobar> whatever". The delivered
>> HTML-code will be "blah &lt;foobar&gt; whatever" shown as "blah <foobar>
>> whatever". That's what is espected.
>> 2) "blah <foobar> whatever" is cropped as plain text. Then it  will be
>> counted as "blah <foobar> whatever" (leaving aside the
>> entities-discussion) delivered as "blah <foobar> whatever" and shown as
>> "blah  whatever" (Firefox 2.0.0.13) or "blah whatever" (Safari 3.1) both
>> ignoring the unknown tag "<foobar>". That's also what is expected.
>>
>> Can we hopefully close this part of the discussion? What do you mean?
> 
> Besides that are obviously other other uses cases where the content is 
> HTML but it is not processed by parseFunc etc
> 
> Let's agree to disagree. IMHO changing a plain text crop to an 
> auto-tag-closing, HTML-entitity-aware crop is a change of features and 
> not a bug fix.
> 
> We agree that it would be cool to have an auto-tag-closing, 
> HTML-entitity-aware crop available in TYPO3 possibly but not limited to 
> stdWrap.

I agree with Masi here. This is a change of behaviour, as the "cropping" 
was never documented as handling xml data and might have been used by 
users with that in mind. The idea of having a switch to turn it on 
(crop.html = 1) would be nice.

Cheers,
Ernesto