[xml] why does doc.serialize() not escape & --> & ?
- From: Hannu Krosing <hannu tm ee>
- To: xml gnome org
- Subject: [xml] why does doc.serialize() not escape & --> & ?
- Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 00:13:10 +0200
this example is done using libxml2 python bindings
import libxml2
libxml2.debugMemory(1)
0
doc = libxml2.newDoc("1.0")
html_content = "<html>ü</html>"
html_content = "<html>>ü</html>"
root = doc.newChild(None, "doc", html_content)
print doc.serialize(None,1)
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<doc><html>>ü</html></doc>
doc.freeDoc()
why < and > are escaped but & is not
this has two bad results
1) the serialization may not be valid xml
doc2 = libxml2.parseDoc(doc.serialize(None,1))
Entity: line 2: error: Entity 'uuml' not defined
<doc><html>>ü</html></doc>
2) you have no way to tell what the original html_content looked like
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Hannu
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