Re: Re[4]: [xml] bug with created attribute nodes?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 09:41:09PM +0300, Alexander Grimalovsky wrote:
> Hello Daniel,
>
>  Yesterday i speak with some other people in public XML forums about
> my question and they tell me, that your position seems to be more
> correct then mine, but this thing is not clearly specified into any
> available specification.
>  But i still have 2 questions about this topic and one of them
> confuses me a bit, can you please comment it?
>
> 1. If current behaviour of libxml2 is expected - is it mean, that i
> should manually perform analize of a text, i want to set as attribute
> value for entities, split it up in parts and construct actual
> attribute value as set of Text and EntityReference objects?

  No. Libxml does it. The point is that a charref or a predefined
entity ref is directly handled by libxml2 (of course !).

> <?xml version="1.0"?><root a="a&amp;amp;b">a&amp;b</root>
>
>  Can you please explain, why "&amp;" being set in attribute value is
> quoted while same "&amp;" being set as node value is treated as entity
> reference?

  Because they are 2 different API calls. Nothing allows you to
assume they have the same behaviour. Maybe they should, well they
don't and I don't want to break the existing semantic of the APIs 
now, unless I get a majority of users asking for a change, and in that case
I would even prefer adding a new API instead of changing the existing
one.

Daniel

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