>On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 01:44:28PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I have a problem, that I changed from my own encoding function to
>xmlEncodeEntitiesReentrant and suddenly apostrophs (') appeared in my
>attributes. So I tried xmlEncodeSpecialChars and they still were present. Same
>problem with the quotes ("), but then found out xmlEncodeSpecialChars does
>that. But now I have the problem, that nothing works anymore, because the
>apostroph still isn't encoded. Judging from the function descrption I assume,
>but both should be the same (differing in the encoding of quote (")) and
>should encode *all* the problematic characters, which (') is one of. Is there
>a reason, why it isn't concerted?
>
> Because it's usually not needed. libxml2 serialization functions know
>how to handle ' and " in attribute functions:
>
>paphio:~ -> cat tst.xml
><foo bar="'" bar2='"'> a " b ' c </foo>
>paphio:~ -> xmllint tst.xml
><?xml version="1.0"?>
><foo bar="'" bar2="""> a " b ' c </foo>
>paphio:~ ->
>
>There is something else broken
I am also using the function to encode strings, I don't put in XMLs, but HTMLs
and other places and from the documentation I assumed, it will handle all cases
of special characters to get a properly encoded string...
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