How to export custom field XML so that HTML can be rendered in Confluence's Jira filter macro

Jira Development
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I have a custom field that renders as a link (calculated at runtime) in Jira and I want to include the results in Confluence’s “Jira filter” macro, but Confluence keeps stripping out the HTML elements.

I added the following line to the custom field’s definition in atlassian-plugin.xml:

<resource type="velocity" name="xml" location="templates/LinkXml.vm"/>

I populated LinkXml.vm to render the field as an HTML link (I.e. <a href=…>), but when the field renders in the Jira filter macro in Confluence it just shows as plaintext and not a link.

How do I get confluence to render it as HTML?

Thanks,
Andrew

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I’ve answered my own question: the content must be wrapped in an HTML span, div, or p element, and then all HTML must be escaped:

<span>&lt;a href="(link address)"&gt;(link name)&lt;/a&gt;</span>