Disable encoding in Diazo?

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In Plone 5.0.7 I have some JS on a page that is loading content from another site. Here is an example:



Notice the url has & to separate the parameters instead of just &. This is a change that Diazo is making, and it's preventing the JS from working properly.


How can I prevent this change from happening?

            


            

              
              
              
            


            

                
                
              


          

          

            

              



              
                  
                  
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I tried your example in 5.1rc1 and added your example to


    

  1. a theme template
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  2. the site settings JS
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and both scripts are showing up perfectly fine without a rewrite of the & character.

            


            

              
              
              
            


            

                
                
              


          

          

            

              



              
                  
                  
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Thanks for checking, Thomas. I tried using the versions of Diazo and plone.app.theming from 5.1rc1, but still get &.


I was already planning to test an upgrade to 5.1rc1, I'll see if that fixes the issue.

            


            

              
              
              
            


            

                
                
              


          

          

            

              



              
                  
                  
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Do you see the same behavior with the default Barceloneta theme? And also with content coming from the JS site settings?

            


            

              
              
              
            


            

                
                
              


          

          

            

              



              
                  
                  
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Yes, it also happens in Barceloneta. I did not test the site settings JS. This particular code will appear in the body text of pages, but I did also test from the index.html and a browser view template, and still got &.


It appears as & with no Diazo theme enabled.

            


            

              
              
              
            


            

                
                
              


          

          

            

              



              
                  
                  
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You fall into an HTML versus XHTML discrepancy. The behaviour you observe is correct for an XML document (such as an XHTML document); it is problematic for HTML. The reason: HTML defines "script" as an element with "CDATA" content (therein  markup is not recognized); XML does not know such elements - all element content is parsed for markup and therefore "&" should be coded as "&". Part C4 of the XHTML specification suggests to use external scripts in those cases to avoid the problem.