On 13/01/2022 09:29, Dieter Maurer wrote:
Robin Becker wrote at 2022-1-13 09:13 +0000:
On 12/01/2022 20:49, Dieter Maurer wrote:
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Apparently, the `resolve_entities=False` was not effective: otherwise,
your tree content should have more structure (especially some
entity reference children).
except that the tree knows not to expand the entities using ET.tostring so in
some circumstances resolve_entities=False
does work.
I think this is a misunderstanding: `tostring` will represent the text character
`&` as `&`.
aaahhhh,
thanks I see now. So tostring is actually restoring some of the entities which on input are normally expanded. If that
means resolve_entities=False does not work at all then I guess there's no need to use it at all. The initial transform
& --> &
does what I need as it is reversed on output of the tree fragments.
Wonder what resolve_entities is actually used for then? All the docs seem to say
resolve_entities - replace entities by their text value (default: True)
I assumed False would mean that they would pass through the parse
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