Re: Bug or Feature: unescaping & in href attribute while in HTML outputmethod

[Joseph Kesselman]

I believe that's correct operation. Xalan-J produces the same result.

When generating HTML output, attributes known to represent URIs are escaped AS PER HTML'S CONVENTION FOR URIS, which is not the same as XML escaping. Remember, HTML is not yet XML-based; it's SGML-based, and SGML allows some things that XML doesn't.

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Joe Kesselman  / IBM Research