Re: [xml] Can I force encoding of single-quote characters?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:25:23AM -0400, jwert ilstechnology com wrote:
> I'm using libxml2 with an embedded SQL database, and it really doesn't 
> like single quote characters in SQL statements.  All of our xml uses 
> double-quotes to encapsulate attribute values, and if I read this 
> statement correctly:
>
> '
> The apostrophe or single-quote character (') can be symbolised with this 
> character entity reference when you need to embed a single-quote or 
> apostrophe inside a string which is already single-quoted. 
>
> Then when i use the xmlwriter i get "'" (double, single, double quotes). 
> What I want to get is "'" Is there some flag I can enable for the 
> writer so I don't have to check for this case manually?

  No flag. I don't know how to do this for the writer. For the xmlsave
module, when saving a tree you can use the xmlSaveSetEscape() to define
a custom escaping routine to be used by the serializer. But this option
is not available in the writer ...

  So I have no obvious soluton for you. in general libxml2 is about
providing support for the XML spec and what you're asking is beyond
the requirement of the spec.

Daniel

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