Re: [xml] Wrong entity reference

["Christopher R. Maden" <crism maden org>]

At 15:27 31/3/02, Daniel Gehriger wrote:
> I need to include a degree sign (°) in an attribute. I tried both
> (encoding UTF-8)
>
>  <foo label="360°+/>
>
> and
>
>  <foo label="&#0176;/>
>
> but xmlGetProp() always returns
>
>  "360°" (that is, "360" + 'A' with a circumflex + degree sign).
>
> Is there anything I'm missing ?

Yes: UTF-8.  If you used UTF-8 in your first example, but looked at it with 
a Unicode-unaware editor, you'd see <foo label="360°"/>.

xmlGetProp() is returning 360°, encoded as UTF-8, and you're looking at it 
byte-by-byte instead of character-by-character.

~Chris
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