Re: [xml] ' -> ' transform

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 07:52:47PM +0900, Yuuichi Teranishi wrote:
> Hi, 
>
> In the file entities.c from the line 661 (On latest CVS),
> there are codes like:
>
> #if 0
>         } else if ((*cur == '\'') && (!html)) {
>             *out++ = '&';
>             *out++ = 'a';
>             *out++ = 'p';
>             *out++ = 'o';
>             *out++ = 's';
>             *out++ = ';';
> #endif
>
> Why these codes are disabled by '#if 0'?
> I think it is unexpected that &apos is dumped as '
> while &quot is dumped as ".

  http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml
  2.4 Character Data and Markup

  -------------
  To allow attribute values to contain both single and double quotes,
  the apostrophe or single-quote character (') may be represented as
  "'", and the double-quote character (") as """.
  -------------

It's a 'may' not a 'must'. I used to do it and I don't anymore.
There is probably a good reason but I can't remember why.

Daniel

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