[pod] Take into account tabs. 'do ... from text' is now obsolete: pod expression now handle correctly tabs and carriage returns.

pod/buffers.py

@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ class Buffer:
     def dumpContent(self, content):
         '''Dumps string p_content into the buffer.'''
         if self.pod:
-            # Take care of converting line breaks to odf line breaks.
+            # Take care of converting line breaks and tabs.
             content = escapeXml(content, format='odf',
                                 nsText=self.env.namespaces[self.env.NS_TEXT])
         else:

pod/renderer.py

@@ -89,6 +89,11 @@ f.close()
 STYLES_POD_FONTS = '<@style@:font-face @style@:name="PodStarSymbol" ' \
                    '@svg@:font-family="StarSymbol"/>'
 
+# do ... \n from text(...) is obsolete.
+OBSOLETE_RENDER_TEXT = 'Obsolete function. Use a pod expression instead ' \
+                       '(field or track-changed). Now, a pod expression ' \
+                       'handles carriage returns and tabs correctly.'
+
 # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 class Renderer:
     templateTypes = ('odt', 'ods') # Types of POD templates
@@ -259,11 +264,8 @@ class Renderer:
                                   stylesMapping, self).run()
 
     def renderText(self, text, encoding='utf-8', stylesMapping={}):
-        '''Method that can be used (under the name 'text') into a pod template
-           for inserting a text containing carriage returns.'''
-        if text == None: text = ''
-        text = cgi.escape(text).replace('\r\n', '<br/>').replace('\n', '<br/>')
-        return self.renderXhtml(text, encoding, stylesMapping)
+        '''Obsolete method.'''
+        raise Exception(OBSOLETE_RENDER_TEXT)
 
     def evalIfExpression(self, condition, ifTrue, ifFalse):
         '''This method implements the method 'test' which is proposed in the

pod/xhtml2odt.py

@@ -340,6 +340,8 @@ class XhtmlEnvironment(XmlEnvironment):
             # We remove leading and trailing carriage returns, but not
             # whitespace because whitespace may be part of the text to dump.
             contentSize = len(content)
+            # We do not escape carriage returns, because, in XHTML, carriage
+            # returns are just ignorable white space.
             self.dumpString(escapeXml(content))
             self.currentContent = u''
         # If we are within a table cell, update the total size of cell content.