Maximiliano Curia added the comment:
Hi,
There are two issues commented in this bug, both are part of libexpat.
The one related the code inconsistency is due the design of Xml_Parser.
Reading Modules/expat/xmlparse.c:5036
else if (!entity) {
/* Cannot report skipped entity here - see comments on
skippedEntityHandler.
if (skippedEntityHandler)
skippedEntityHandler(handlerArg, name, 0);
*/
/* Cannot call the default handler because this would be
out of sync with the call to the startElementHandler.
if ((pool == &tempPool) && defaultHandler)
reportDefault(parser, enc, ptr, next);
*/
break;
}
That's so because libexpat startElementHandler should be called before the
skippedEntityHandler, but this piece of code is processed before the call to
startElementHandler.
To fix this, it would require a change in the libexpat API, adding the concept
of futures to the attributes processing, and a way to obtain them with an
iterator.
In any case, I don't think this is a python issue, but a known libexpat
limitation. It might be forwarded to libexpat developers, but from the python
point of view, it should be closed.
The second issue, is not really an issue. It's the default behaviour if an
entity reference is found but there is no dtd specified (the entities
declaration is a xml extension). This part is working as intended.
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