[libxml-devel] entity encoding

[Sean Chittenden]

node.content returns a string, which is 'AT&T'  iirc, you want to  
assign a node, not the content of a node.  I believe it's quite  
deliberate that it doesn't escape string input (try and construct an  
HTML or RSS feed).  It's easier to escape on assign than have a magic  
escape in these situations, not in these situations, type of semantics.

Am punting on the rest for someone else to pick up.  -sc



On Aug 28, 2009, at 4:53 AM, Andrew Hume wrote:

> xml:
>
> 	<Company>  AT&amp;T </Company>
>
> i parse this using
>
> 	doc = LibXML::XML::Document.file('foo.xml')
>
> if node points to this element, then
> 	node.content == 'AT&T'
>
> all well and good. if i want to now create a new document,
> then i do
>
> 	newnode = LibXML::XML::Node.new('Company')
> 	newnode.content = node.content
>
> and this assignment has the error 'unterminated entity reference'
> (which could be fair given that it is literally an unterminated  
> entity reference).
> the question is should assignment of content automatically do teh  
> conversion
> or should teh user be responsible?
> and if so, is there a convenient method for doing so?
>
> (meta-question: is this documented anywhere, and if so, where?)
>
>
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