Re: [xml] SAX and escaped characters

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 12:52:21PM +0200, Marc Ewert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using the SAX-interface of libxml2-2.4.22. If I'm parsing the 
> following XML-File:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> <doc>
>    <message attr1="hello" attr2="world &amp;!&amp;">hello world</message>
>    <epilogue>&amp;ciao&amp;</epilogue>
> </doc>
> 
> I get "&ciao&" for the element, but "world &amp;!&amp;" for the 
> attribute from the parser. Why is the &amp; decoded for the element but 
> not for the attribute? Is this a bug, or a feature?

  feature. That's the only way to be able to save back entities used
in attribute values when using the DOM form.

Daniel

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