: > However I still think the highlighter should return unescaped tags for : > highlighting. There is IMO no benefit for the current behavior.
the advantage is that the XmlResponseWriter has a duty to ensure that it produces wellformed XML regardless of configuration, data, or input. : The problems all stem from the simple highlighter formatter mixing : highlighting info directly into the string to be highlighted. It's : not a 100% bulletproof solution because now you can't tell original : field value from markup. right ... the best you can do is pick markup that you are confident doesn't appear in *your* data (which is why the hl.simple.pre and hl.simple.post args exist) Once upon a time, i speculated on a more "advanced" format for returning highlighter info that was never implimented, but could still be usefull -- not just for situations like this, but in general for extracting more info about the orrigin of the snippets... http://www.nabble.com/highlighting-tf1393198.html#a3954083 -Hoss
