Re: "Re: [xml] how to write a xmlAttr with xmlTextWriter?"

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 04:38:10PM +0100, Kasimier Buchcik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> on 2/10/2004 2:23 PM Kasimier Buchcik wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > does there exist a function that can serialize the content of a xmlAttr 
> > (attr->children) to be used with "xmlTextWriterWriteAttribute"? It 
> > should bear analogy to "xmlAttrSerializeContent" which is used by the 
> > serialization mechanism internally. If no, did someone already succeded 
> > in xml-text-writing an xmlAttr?
>
>
> Hmm, I tried the following combination but it does not behave properly:
>
> attrVal = xmlNodeListGetString(NULL, attr->children, 0);
> xmlTextWriterWriteAttribute(writer, attr->name, attrVal);
>
> Since "xmlNodeListGetString" and "xmlTextWriterWriteAttribute" both lead 
> to a "&" to "&" conversion, I get a recursive conversion if cycling 
> serialization & parsing:
>
> "<" --> "&amp;lt;" --> "&amp;amp;lt;" --> etc.
>
> Entity references will be mangled by xmlTextWriterWriteAttribute.
> Is there any chance of adding to "xmlAttrSerializeTxtContent" (called by 
> "xmlTextWriterWriteAttribute") a heuristic evaluation if a "&" is a 
> beginning of an entity reference or not? But maby this does not fit in 
> the big picture. Any other clues?

  < in attributes must be escaped. attr->children should be a list
of text node and attribute references, usually you will just get
a text node. Apparently the current xmlTextWriter API won't allow
you to output entities references. That's all I can say. If you
have just a text node use its content as the value passed to
xmlTextWriterWriteAttribute(), otherwise if you have an entity reference
well that would need an API extension I'm afraid.

Daniel


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