[xml] HTMLtree.c escapes braces

[Bruce Sinclair <Bruce Sinclair microfocus com>]

Hi Daniel,

 

We have had the issue that libxml2 encodes curly braces as character references in HTML output because of the following code in HTMLtree.c:

 

               escaped = xmlURIEscapeStr(tmp, BAD_CAST"@/:=?;#%&,+");

               if (escaped != NULL) {

                    xmlBufferWriteQuotedString(buf->buffer, escaped);

                    xmlFree(escaped);

                } else {

                    xmlBufferWriteQuotedString(buf->buffer, value);

                }

 

We don’t think the curly braces, “{“ and “}”, should be changed to character references.  Doing so causes a problem with the use of braces in a Server Response File (SRF) generated with libxml2.  We change the first line of the above code to:

 

               escaped = xmlURIEscapeStr(tmp, BAD_CAST"@/:=?;#%&,+{}");

 

to eliminate this issue.  Could this be accepted as a fix to libxml2?

 

 

Bruce Sinclair

Software Systems Developer – Senior Principal

 

Micro Focus

 

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