Backout ad09ce1d393c and replace ''' with """ to make some highlighting happy. I have tried Debian's default emacs and the current CVS version. Default emacs doesn't have highlighting enabled (and being emacs-illiterate I don't know how to enable it) and the CVS emacs' Python highlighting has no problems with ' characters here.

<table class="slogEntry parity#parity#">
 <tr>
  <td class="age">#date|age#</td>
  <td class="author">#author|person#</td>
  <td class="node"><a href="#url#rev/#node|short#{sessionvars%urlparameter}">#desc|strip|firstline|escape#</a></td>
 </tr>
</table>