Re: [xml] bug with created attribute nodes?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 08:07:08PM +0300, Alexander Grimalovsky wrote:
>  It looks like there is a bug in libxml2 with handling pre-defined (or
> numeric) entities while creating attribute nodes.
>  Since i'm using libxml2 through PHP i can't give you proper testcase,
> but maybe this one will also be useful for you:
>
> <?php
> $xml = domxml_open_mem('<'.'?xml version="1.0"?'.'><root/>');
> $root = $xml->root();
> $root->set_attribute('a','a&amp;b');
> echo $xml->dump_mem();
> ?>
>
>  This testcase produces following result:
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <root a="a&amp;#222;b"/>
>
>  while it is expected to be:
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <root a="a&#222;b"/>
>
> Internally set_attribute() method calls xmlSetProp() function which
> seems to be buggy because it contains:

 Ask the PHP bindings maintainer I have no idea what's going on on their
side !

paphio:~ -> python
Python 2.2.1 (#1, Aug 30 2002, 12:15:30)
[GCC 3.2 20020822 (Red Hat Linux Rawhide 3.2-4)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> > > import libxml2
> > > doc = libxml2.parseDoc("""<doc/>""")
> > > root = doc.getRootElement()
> > > root.setProp("img", "a&b")
<xmlAttr (img) object at 0x84943dc>
> > > root.serialize()
'<doc img="a&amp;b"/>'
> > >

  I do not maintain the PHP bindings, I have no idea how reliable they
are or aren't,

Daniel

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