On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 10:15:00AM +0200, Jeroen Lamain wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using xmlEncodeEntitiesReentrant to encode some strings to
> proper xml strings.
> Now I noticed that double quotes are not quoted correcly.
> I downloaded the source of libxml2-2.7.8 and looked in the
> xmlEncodeEntitiesReentrant function.
>
> There I see:(line 584)
> /*
> * By default one have to encode at least '<', '>', '"' and '&' !
> */
> if (*cur == '<') {
> *out++ = '&';
> *out++ = 'l';
> *out++ = 't';
> *out++ = ';';
> } else if (*cur == '>') {
> *out++ = '&';
> *out++ = 'g';
> *out++ = 't';
> *out++ = ';';
> } else if (*cur == '&') {
> *out++ = '&';
> *out++ = 'a';
> *out++ = 'm';
> *out++ = 'p';
> *out++ = ';';
> } else if (((*cur >= 0x20) && (*cur < 0x80)) ||
> (*cur == '\n') || (*cur == '\t') || ((html) && (*cur == '\r'))) {
> /*
> * default case, just copy !
> */
> *out++ = *cur;
> }
>
>
> It seems the comment says " char must be quoted, but the code is not there ?
> Or am I doing something wrong ?
The comment is wrong, in general " doesn't have to be quoted except in
attribute values, but then ' can be used instead to delimit the
attribute content. I think the earlier version was fixed as libxml2
serializer for attributes was improved later,
Daniel
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