Re: [xml] Decoding in attributes broken for libxml2-2.6.2

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 05:38:24PM +0100, Marc Ewert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a simple test-xml:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <Document uri="http://local/?a=1&amp;b=2"; />
>
> with an encoded ampersand in an attribute.

  SAX sucks w.r.t. handling of entities in attributes.
Libxml2 need to be able to edit entities in atributes, by default
it tries to preserve them. This generate this kind of mess.
You have 2 solutions:
  - don't use SAX
 or
  - ask the parser to replace entities values, in that case 
    the substitution will already be done before the callback level.

Daniel

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