Re: [xml] xmlSetProp Escape Free.

[Zaid Amireh <tumbak gmail com>]

On Aug 1, 2011, at 11:48 PM, Christopher R. Maden wrote:

> On 08/01/2011 04:35 PM, Zaid Amireh wrote:
> > The thing is that libxml is escaping the & between the two parameters
> > into & and this is obviously not needed for html href's, I
> > checked the mailing list and someone in 1999 proposed to implement
> > xmlSetRawProp but it seems it never made it, any ideas on how to
> > overcome this?
>
> Obvious to whom?  It is, in fact, required (by the HTML specifications)
> to turn the & into &, even if it is rarely done in practice.

Citation please.

RFC1630 (and RFC1738 and RFC1808 for that matter) states that '&' is safe to use and all of those RFC 
actually don't even mention &

from RFC1630
httpaddress            h t t p :   / / hostport [  / path ] [ ?search ]
search                     xalphas [ + search ]
xalphas                   xalpha [ xalphas ]
xalpha                     alpha | digit | safe | extra | escape
safe                         $ | - | _ | @ | . | &  | + | -

Zaid