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XML munges apos entity in tag content #46899

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resplin mannequin opened this issue Apr 17, 2008 · 2 comments
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XML munges apos entity in tag content #46899

resplin mannequin opened this issue Apr 17, 2008 · 2 comments
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resplin mannequin commented Apr 17, 2008

BPO 2647
Nosy @loewis

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closed_at = <Date 2008-04-17.06:05:00.989>
created_at = <Date 2008-04-17.03:01:58.175>
labels = ['expert-XML', 'type-bug', 'invalid']
title = 'XML munges apos entity in tag content'
updated_at = <Date 2008-04-17.06:05:00.982>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/resplin'

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closed_date = <Date 2008-04-17.06:05:00.989>
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priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'not a bug'
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status = 'closed'
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type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue2647'
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resplin mannequin commented Apr 17, 2008

I would like it to leave my ' alone, just like it does with my <
and >

Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Sep 21 2007, 22:46:31)
[GCC 4.2.1 (SUSE Linux)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from xml.dom import minidom
>>> doc = minidom.parseString("<tag>&lt;a&apos;b&gt;</tag>")
>>> doc.toxml()
u'<?xml version="1.0" ?><tag>&lt;a\'b&gt;</tag>'
>>>

@resplin resplin mannequin added topic-XML type-bug An unexpected behavior, bug, or error labels Apr 17, 2008
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loewis mannequin commented Apr 17, 2008

That's not a bug. The two XML documents are completely equivalent. If
you rely on the lexical representation of specific characters, you
should reconsider your usage of XML. toxml could have chosen to
represent < as <, and that still would have been correct (IOW, it
doesn't even know anymore that you represented it as < in the input).

@loewis loewis mannequin closed this as completed Apr 17, 2008
@loewis loewis mannequin added the invalid label Apr 17, 2008
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