Re: [xml] xmlEncodeSpecialChars problem

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 01:44:28PM +0200, oliverst online de wrote:
> I have a problem, that I changed from my own encoding function to xmlEncodeEntitiesReentrant and suddenly 
> apostrophs (') appeared in my attributes. So I tried xmlEncodeSpecialChars and they still were present. 
> Same problem with the quotes ("), but then found out xmlEncodeSpecialChars does that. But now I have the 
> problem, that nothing works anymore, because the apostroph still isn't encoded. Judging from the function 
> descrption I assume, but both should be the same (differing in the encoding of quote (")) and should encode 
> *all* the problematic characters, which (') is one of. Is there a reason, why it isn't concerted?

  Because it's usually not needed. libxml2 serialization functions know
how to handle ' and " in attribute functions:

paphio:~ -> cat tst.xml
<foo bar="'" bar2='"'> a " b ' c </foo>
paphio:~ -> xmllint tst.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<foo bar="'" bar2="&quot;"> a " b ' c </foo>
paphio:~ ->

There is something else broken

Daniel

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