AW: Re: [xml] xmlEncodeSpecialChars problem

[oliverst online de]

>On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 01:44:28PM +0200, oliverst online de wrote:
>> I have a problem, that I changed from my own encoding function to 
>xmlEncodeEntitiesReentrant and suddenly apostrophs (') appeared in my 
>attributes. So I tried xmlEncodeSpecialChars and they still were present. Same 
>problem with the quotes ("), but then found out xmlEncodeSpecialChars does 
>that. But now I have the problem, that nothing works anymore, because the 
>apostroph still isn't encoded. Judging from the function descrption I assume, 
>but both should be the same (differing in the encoding of quote (")) and 
>should encode *all* the problematic characters, which (') is one of. Is there 
>a reason, why it isn't concerted?
>
>  Because it's usually not needed. libxml2 serialization functions know
>how to handle ' and " in attribute functions:
>
>paphio:~ -> cat tst.xml
><foo bar="'" bar2='"'> a " b ' c </foo>
>paphio:~ -> xmllint tst.xml
><?xml version="1.0"?>
><foo bar="'" bar2="&quot;"> a " b ' c </foo>
>paphio:~ ->
>
>There is something else broken

I am also using the function to encode strings, I don't put in XMLs, but HTMLs and other places and from the documentation I assumed, it will handle all cases of special characters to get a properly encoded string...