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XML code coloring incorrectly parses in CDATA areas

May 5, 2009 8:01 AM

Dreamweaver CS4's code view starts parsing text as a string (for purposes of code coloring, at least) whenever it runs into a single or double quote in the middle of a CDATA section in an XML file. So everything turns green (default string color) until the parser finds another quote mark.

 

This is not the appropriate behavior, because characters in CDATA fields are supposed to be ignored except for ]]>. How can I fix this problem?

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  • David_Powers
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    1. David_Powers,
    May 5, 2009 8:11 AM   in reply to eliot1785
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    You can't fix the problem. Dreamweaver's code coloring doesn't recognize CDATA sections. You can file a bug report/feature request here: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform.

     
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  • eliot1785
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    2. eliot1785,
    May 5, 2009 8:27 AM   in reply to David_Powers
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    Thanks for the answer. That is really unfortunate, though. The more I get into advanced coding, the more I feel that DW is just lacking in a lot of ways. I will file a bug report.

     
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    3. eliot1785,
    May 5, 2009 9:27 AM   in reply to eliot1785
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    BTW, am I right in my belief that Dreamweaver also doesn't correctly process Heredoc/Nowdoc code for code coloring? I'm getting similar issues with that.

     
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    4. David_Powers,
    May 5, 2009 4:11 PM   in reply to eliot1785
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    It's not surprising that Dreamweaver doesn't support nowdoc syntax, because it's new to PHP 5.3, which still hasn't been released.

     

    However, you're right that it doesn't support either heredoc or nowdoc syntax. Requests for support in future versions of Dreamweaver have been submitted.

     
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    May 5, 2009 4:22 PM   in reply to David_Powers
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    Agreed on nowdoc, but heredoc syntax was added in PHP 4 many years ago. They ought to have added this to DW several versions ago. I will submit a feature request / bug report for this as well.

     
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    6. David_Powers,
    May 6, 2009 3:24 AM   in reply to eliot1785
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    heredoc syntax was added in PHP 4 many years ago. They ought to have added this to DW several versions ago.

    Features get added to Dreamweaver based on what the development team judges to be the most useful to the widest range of users. I agree that heredoc (and nowdoc) syntax should be correctly interpreted by Dreamweaver's syntax coloring, but it will happen only if sufficient numbers of people ask for it, either through the feature request form or the other user research Adobe does. Thanks for submitting the request. Let's hope they act on it for next time round.

     
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    7. bobbyhadley,
    Mar 1, 2013 5:01 AM   in reply to David_Powers
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    Thank you for the link to the bug reporting system. Dreamweaver and Adobe tools have been out for a long time. It seems like they would want to address this issue. Color coding is important, I would prefer if it were turned off all together if it's going to show up as broken. I can use other tools to validate my XML.

     
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