[xml] Re: Bug#21552: libxml fails to decode & properly

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From: Daniel Veillard (Daniel.Veillard@w3.org)
Date: Tue Aug 22 2000 - 16:22:37 EDT

On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 10:59:39AM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@w3.org> writes:
>
> > My regression tests of libxml have had &amp; cases since the very
> > beginning. Like test/ent3
> >
> > <EXAMPLE prop1="a&amp;b" prop2="&xml;">
> >
> > If libxml was choking on them I think I would have detected it
> > immediately, before doing the packaging.
> > Do you have the testcase exhibiting the problem ?
>
> Compare the output of
>
> xmllint --valid test/ent3
>
> to that of
>
> sed -e 's/&amp;/\&#38;/g' test/ent3 > ent3b
> xmllint --valid ent3b
>
> > Are you using the SAX interface or the DOM one ?
>
> I'm using the DOM-style interface, but with validation enabled.

  Woah, this is a real bug, impressive that it never showed before,
seems that all the document i used to test the validations, none
uses &amp; in attribute values !!!

  I fixed the problem (your suggested fix is invalid it doesn't
deliver the proper attribute value at the end and expose a number
of other problems). I enclose the patch, I will commit it to the CVS
bases in the next hour.

    thanks a lot for catching this, and apologies to the person
  who reported it previously it seems I didn't look at the problem.

Daniel 

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