ASP Repeater in SharePoint 2013 HTML Masterpage

Question

I'm in the process of building our public website in SharePoint 2013, which is much easier than it was in 2010!
I'm having problems using an ASP Repeater to build the navigation.  It all works except for <%# Eval("Url")%>
How do I escape/comment the evals in the HTML file?
<!-- Navigation Start -->
<!--SPM:<SharePoint:AjaxDelta id="DeltaTopNavigation" BlockElement="true" CssClass="ms-displayInline ms-core-navigation" role="navigation" runat="server">-->
<!--SPM:<SharePoint:DelegateControl runat="server" ControlId="TopNavigationDataSource" Id="topNavigationDelegate">-->
<!--</SharePoint:DelegateControl>-->
<!--SPM:<asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderTopNavBar" runat="server">-->
<nav class="nav">
<ul id="SpNavUL">
<!--SPM:<asp:Repeater ID="GlobalNavMenuItems" runat="server" DataSourceID="topSiteMap">-->
<!--SPM:<ItemTemplate>-->
<li>
<!--SPM:<asp:HyperLink ID="navlink" runat="server" NavigateUrl='<%# Eval("Url")%>' Text='<%# Eval("Title") %>'>-->
<!--SPM:</asp:HyperLink>-->
</li>
<!--SPM:</ItemTemplate>-->
<!--SPM:<ItemTemplate>-->
<li>
<!--SPM:<asp:HyperLink ID="navlink" runat="server" NavigateUrl='<%# Eval("Url")%>' Text='<%# Eval("Title") %>'>-->
<!--SPM:</asp:HyperLink>-->
</li>
<!--SPM:</ItemTemplate>-->
<!--SPM:</asp:Repeater>-->
<!--SPM:<asp:SiteMapDataSource ShowStartingNode="False" SiteMapProvider="CombinedNavSiteMapProvider" id="topSiteMap" runat="server" StartingNodeUrl="sid:1002" />-->
</ul>
</nav>
<!--SPM:</asp:ContentPlaceHolder>-->
<!--SPM:</SharePoint:AjaxDelta>-->
<!-- Navigation End -->
Thanks!

Answer 1

Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that you want to use <%# Eval("Url")%> in SharePoint 2013 HTML Masterpage.
You need to adding an entry to the web.config (see, for example,
this blog) to specify that your master page can have code blocks.
<PageParserPaths>
<PageParserPath VirtualPath="/pages/test.aspx" CompilationMode="Always" AllowServerSideScript="true" />
</PageParserPaths>
Here is a similar thread for your reference:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22566589/sharepoint-master-page-asprepeater-tag
Thanks,
Linda Li                
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