--- loncom/xml/lonxml.pm	2002/03/08 18:32:55	1.156
+++ loncom/xml/lonxml.pm	2002/03/21 20:51:10	1.159
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # The LearningOnline Network with CAPA
 # XML Parser Module 
 #
-# $Id: lonxml.pm,v 1.156 2002/03/08 18:32:55 matthew Exp $
+# $Id: lonxml.pm,v 1.159 2002/03/21 20:51:10 www Exp $
 #
 # Copyright Michigan State University Board of Trustees
 #
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ qw(@pwd @outputstack $redirection $impor
 use strict;
 use HTML::TokeParser;
 use HTML::TreeBuilder;
+use HTML::Entities;
 use Safe;
 use Safe::Hole;
 use Math::Cephes qw(:trigs :hypers :bessels erf erfc);
@@ -324,6 +325,8 @@ sub registerurl {
     }
     if ($Apache::lonxml::registered && !$forcereg) { return ''; }
     $Apache::lonxml::registered=1;
+    my $nothing='';
+    if ($ENV{'browser.type'} eq 'explorer') { $nothing='javascript:void(0);'; }
     if (($ENV{'REQUEST_URI'}!~/^\/(res\/)*adm\//) || ($forcereg)) {
         my $hwkadd='';
         if ($ENV{'REQUEST_URI'}=~/\.(problem|exam|quiz|assess|survey|form)$/) {
@@ -355,7 +358,7 @@ ENDPARM
 // BEGIN LON-CAPA Internal
 
     function LONCAPAreg() {
-	  menu=window.open("","LONCAPAmenu");
+	  menu=window.open("$nothing","LONCAPAmenu","",false);
           menu.clearTimeout(menu.menucltim);
 	  menu.currentURL=window.location.pathname;
           menu.currentStale=0;
@@ -382,7 +385,7 @@ ENDPARM
     }
 
     function LONCAPAstale() {
-	  menu=window.open("","LONCAPAmenu");
+	  menu=window.open("$nothing","LONCAPAmenu","",false);
           menu.currentStale=1;
           menu.switchbutton
              (3,1,'reload.gif','return','location','go(currentURL)');
@@ -407,7 +410,7 @@ ENDREGTHIS
 // BEGIN LON-CAPA Internal
 
     function LONCAPAreg() {
-	  menu=window.open("","LONCAPAmenu");
+	  menu=window.open("$nothing","LONCAPAmenu","",false);
           menu.currentStale=1;
           menu.clearbut(2,1);
           menu.clearbut(2,3);
@@ -1087,7 +1090,7 @@ SIMPLECONTENT
 
 sub inserteditinfo {
       my ($result,$filecontents)=@_;
-      $filecontents =~ s:</textarea>:&lt;/textarea&gt;:ig;
+      $filecontents = &HTML::Entities::encode($filecontents);
 #      my $editheader='<a href="#editsection">Edit below</a><hr />';
       my $editfooter=(<<ENDFOOTER);
 <hr />
@@ -1250,6 +1253,7 @@ sub get_param {
   if ( ! $context ) { $context = -1; }
   my $args ='';
   if ( $#$parstack > (-2-$context) ) { $args=$$parstack[$context]; }
+  if ( ! $args ) { return undef; }
   if ( $args =~ /my \$$param=\"/ ) {
     return &Apache::run::run("{$args;".'return $'.$param.'}',$safeeval); #'
   } else {