Binding in Velocity templates using EL accessors ([, ]) for collections produces non xhtml strict compliant output [SPR-5172] #9845
Description
David Mas opened SPR-5172 and commented
When the springBind macro is called, then the generated XHTML contains the bound path on the ID of the HTML element. If the bound property contains some EL syntax to access collections (e.g. uses [] to access a map) these characters will appear on the ID attribute.
According to XHTML strict, the ID must be a NCNAME (see http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#NT-NCName), which does not allow these characters among others.
The solution does not look obvious to me, but maybe some mechanism to escape the ID in these cases or to alias them could work.
Affects: 4.0.6
Issue Links:
- Using array syntax generates invalid id using freemarker [SPR-8732] #13374 Using array syntax generates invalid id using freemarker
- springUrl Velocity macro should encode the given URI using the response [SPR-14027] #18599 springUrl Velocity macro should encode the given URI using the response
Referenced from: commits 1b53882