Using HTML in the definition

[nyg]

Hello and thanks for your tool :)

In your code there are the following lines:

defn = defn.replace("\\\\","\\").\
        replace(">", "\\>").\
        replace("<", "\\<").\
        replace("\\n","<br/>\n").\
        strip()

This will of course break any HTML that is in the word definition (<p> becomes \<p\>, etc). So my question is: what's the purpose of the above code? I removed it and was still able to generate a dictionary that looked okay on my Kindle.

Many thanks,
nyg

[apeyser]

Precisely -- the opf format is itself xml, so the html must be escaped somehow. I don't recall how the opf needs to properly escape the html (maybe proper xml escapes or maybe just backslashes), but I didn't need anything more sophisticated for my uses.