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Hi there.  I am listing entries in one list from two blog posts.  I am then embedding the appropriate renderer for the blog entry based on what type of post it is.  I am having problems with the body property.  If there are double quotes in my body custom field of the entry, it breaks this (probably because i am going body=”{body}” however I need to be able to use double quotes and single quotes in my body, and I use the blog_post template in lots of different places so I really would prefer to embed it so I don’t have duplicate code.  Is there some way I can convert my quotes to entities when they are inserted into the database so that when they are retrieved it doesn’t cause this problem?

{exp:weblog:entries weblog='blog_post'}              
          {embed="includes/blog_post"
            title="{title}"
            date="{entry_date format='%D %d %M'}"
            year="{entry_date format='%Y'}"
            time="{entry_date format='%g:%i %A'}"
            url="/blog/post/{url_title}"
            user_url="/blog/user/{username}"
            user_name="{author}"
            summary="{summary}"  
            body="{body}"
            categories='{categories backspace="1"}<a href="/blog/category/{category_url_title}">{category_name}</a>,{/categories}'
          }
      {/exp:weblog:entries}

If you’re embedding that much, I’m wondering if it would be better to just have the weblog tag on the embedded template instead.  That’s what I’d do unless I had a really good reason not to.

That said- if it’s an absolute requirement that it work this way, might try using something like xml encode to ditch quotes.  I’m not certain the parse order would flake out, but I think it would.

That said- I’d probably go a different approach overall.

Robin,

It’s actually a lot more complex, I’m doing conditionals in the weblog entries loop to load a different renderer based on what type of blog post it encounters, I just simplified the example to make it more clear. I will look into XML Encode. Thanks!

camwest, are you good? Do you need any further assistance?

Ingmar, thanks for following up.  I wasn’t able to solve the problem using XML Encode, I just worked around it by not embedding another template. I am just putting markup straight in.

Thanks!

Thanks for letting us know. As Robin suggested, embedding as much data as you did in your example is probably not a good idea. Looks like you’re squared away for the time being, though, so I’ll close this thread. If anything else comes up, please do not hesitate to start a new one.