If the noescape attribute is present then the value is not escaped. Only use this attribute when you are sure that the result of the expression is safe. Without this attribute all &, <, >, and " are escaped.
For example:
>>> import albatross >>> ctx = albatross.SimpleContext('.') >>> ctx.locals.field = '<img src="http://rude.pictures.r.us/">' >>> albatross.Template(ctx, '<magic>', ''' ... Safe: <al-value expr="field" whitespace> ... Oops: <al-value expr="field" noescape whitespace> ... ''').to_html(ctx) >>> ctx.flush_content() Safe: <img src="http://rude.pictures.r.us/"> Oops: <img src="http://rude.pictures.r.us/">