Topic: Flyout Menu

[yamiacaveman]

Hi All and glad your back up KEN!!

So - Quickly
https://www.pennlake.us/     Radar

All I am trying to do is change the links in the Radar  -- State College and Mt Holly
Example - change link in State College to "https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/radar_lite.php?rid=CCX&ampproduct=NCR&ampoverlay=11101111&loop=yes" and I get this

XML error: EntityRef: expecting ';' at line 44

Here is a snippet of the code if anyone has any Ideas or needs more info LMK.

-->
<menu>
   <item caption="Home" link="index.php" title="Home Page"/>
   <item wxonly="VWS" caption="Mesonet" title="Local Weather Exchange Stations" link="wxmesonet.php"/>
   <item caption="Radar">
              <item caption="Combined Radar" link="https://www.pennlake.us/wxmultiradars.php" title="Combined Radar" target="_blank"/>
               <item caption="Radar by Region" link="https://www.pennlake.us/radarbyregion.php" title="Radar by Region" target="_blank"/>
             <item caption="Water Vapor" link="https://www.weather.gov/satellite" title="Water Vapor" target="_blank"/>
             <item caption="Binghamton NY" link="https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/Conus/northeast_loop.php" title="NE Radar" target="_blank"/>   
              <item caption="State College PA" link="https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/radar.php?rid=ccx&amp;amp;product=N0R&amp;amp;overlay=11101111&amp;amp;loop=yes" title="Radar" target="_blank"/>
            <item caption="Mount Holly NJ" link="https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/radar.php?rid=dix&amp;amp;product=N0R&amp;amp;overlay=11101111&amp;amp;loop=yes" title="MH" target="_blank"/>           
<!--
      <item caption="GRLevel3 Radar" link="wxgr3radar.php" title="NEXRAD Radar using GRLevel3" />
-->
   </item>
<!--
      <item caption="Nearby Buoys" link="wxbuoys.php"/>
-->
   <item caption="Forecast" title="Weather outlook">

[saratogaWX]

The cited url of

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https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/radar_lite.php?rid=CCX&ampproduct=NCR&ampoverlay=11101111&loop=yesis not quite valid.. the &amp is missing the ; (semicolon) so should read as

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https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/radar_lite.php?rid=CCX&product=NCR&overlay=11101111&loop=yesThen it is a valid URL with &amp; -> & when loaded in the browser.  To make it work inside XML (thanks to the XML parser), those &amp; have to be 'escaped' to be &amp;amp; for it all to work correctly.  So the URL becomes

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https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/radar_lite.php?rid=CCX&product=NCR&overlay=11101111&loop=yes

[yamiacaveman]

Thanks Ken!!!!

At First I thought it was as simple as cuttng and pasting the url in -- not so.

Also not knowing I did look up the error message, thought i did what you did but I know I didn't do something right, cause mine did not work.

Really glad your back up and running.

[yamiacaveman]

So this is what I missed - I guess it time for either new glasses or more brain food.

111&loop=yes  I didn't see the & inbetween the 111's

[gwwilk]

Search for '&' and replace with '&amp;' has always been my go-to method because of old eyes, etc.  I just avoid using 'Replace All' so I can check to see if the replacement is legitimate.

[yamiacaveman]

Thanks gwwilk!!! Now only if my old tired mind can remember your tip, lol.

[saratogaWX]

That

Search for '&' and replace with '&amp;'

works for page HTML for URLS.

Inside flyout-menu.xml (or dropdown-menu.xml) there has to be one more level of escape so

Search for '&' and replace with '&amp;amp;'

there (but only in the .xml file).