Re^2: LibXML doesn't encode single or double quotes

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Oh, sorry. I left out a small, crucial detail. The clients that will be parsing this XML expect quotes and single quotes to be in entity form. In fact, it is a requirement, and I have no say in that.

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Re^3: LibXML doesn't encode single or double quotes by grantm (Parson) on Nov 28, 2011 at 22:11 UTC
The clients that will be parsing this XML expect quotes and single quotes to be in entity form. How would they even know? Any compliant XML parsing library will decode the entities and pass the actual character up to the application layer. Getting the XML content with entities in their raw form would be a bug that could only cause downstream pain. If that really is a requirement then I feel your pain.	[reply]
Re^4: LibXML doesn't encode single or double quotes by randonpurcell (Initiate) on Nov 28, 2011 at 22:19 UTC
OK, I'm glad you said that. I thought I must just be completely daft and missing something simple. I'm going to throw this back over the fence and see if I can get them to fix things on their side. I've wasted enough time and I don't feel like regex'ing a big mess to try to do this :) Thanks!	[reply]
Re^5: LibXML doesn't encode single or double quotes by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 29, 2011 at 03:59 UTC
I agree fully. `name='foo's bar' # Attribute's value is: foo's bar name="foo's bar" # Attribute's value is: foo's bar name="foo's bar" # Attribute's value is: foo's bar <name>foo's bar</name> # Text's value is: foo's bar <name>foo's bar</name> # Text's value is: foo's bar <name>foo's bar</name> # Text's value is: foo's bar` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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