Re: [xml] xmlEncodeSpecialChars vs xmlEncodeEntitiesReentrant

[Nikolay Sivov <bunglehead gmail com>]

On 2/10/2010 19:12, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 06:15:38PM +0300, Nikolay Sivov wrote:
>    
> > Both calls have a header comment about their reentrance capability.
> > Is it a comment bug?
> >
> > Does reentrant in this case mean that I can pass a string already
> > encoded with xmlEncodeEntitiesReentrant
> > to this call again?
> >      
>    no it's related to xmlEncodeEntities() deprecated function which used
> a global variable for doing the conversion and hence was not
> thread-safe.
>
>    
Also it's not clear how to deal with a case my string is already 
escaped, or partially escaped for example.
Looks like these helpers will break it converting from "&" to 
"&"...
> Daniel
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