Re: [xml] entity conversion

[Andrew Hume <andrew research att com>]

xml:

<Company>  AT&amp;T </Company>

i parse this using

doc = LibXML::XML::Document.file('foo.xml')

if node points to this element, then

node.content == 'AT&T'

all well and good. if i want to now create a new document,

then i do

newnode = LibXML::XML::Node.new('Company')

newnode.content = node.content

and this assignment has the error 'unterminated entity reference'

(which could be fair given that it is literally an unterminated entity reference).

the question is should assignment of content automatically do teh conversion

or should teh user be responsible?

On Aug 19, 2009, at 12:54 PM, Michael Ludwig wrote:

Andrew Hume schrieb:

by default, it appears that '&amp;' gets convert to '&' when reading

strings in, but when assigning content to a node, teh same '&' gets an

'unterminated entity reference'.

What's that?

i am using the ruby binding; my intuition is that the problem lies in

the binding, but i thought i'd ask here first.

Could you supply a minimal, runnable test case to illustrate the

problem?

-- 

Michael Ludwig

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