Re: [xml] Entity replacement not correct. !!

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 12:29:57PM +0530, harbhanu wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   We are using SAX parser for parsing .In our xml documents there are some
> standard entities like < and & in the attribute for some elements
>
>   We were expecting that they will get converted to the proper equivalent
> after parsing,(&).but & is getting converted to &

  SAX sucks for entities handling in attributes. Libxml2 has a workaround
but it leads to this. Ask for entity replacement at the parser level. This
has been described in the past.

> Similar defect was reported earlier, link for the same is
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389843
>
>  
>
> Also, we have done xmlSubstituteEntitiesDefault (1); after doing
> xmlInitParser ();

  xmlSubstituteEntitiesDefault uses the global variable and has been
progressively abandonned, use a parser entry point where you supply the 
xmlParserOption(s)

Daniel

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