[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-440351 ] saxutils.escape needs to escape "quotes"

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Bugs item #440351, was opened at 2001-07-11 03:32
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Category: XML
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Andrew Dalke (dalke)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: saxutils.escape needs to escape "quotes"

Initial Comment:
XML attributes containing a value with a double
quote are not properly escaped.  Consider

from xml.sax import saxutils
gen = saxutils.XMLGenerator()
gen.startDocument()
gen.startElement('spam', {'width': '12"'})

This produces

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<spam width="12"">

That second line should more likely be

<spam width="12&quot;">

or perhaps use the hex escape, which I think
is '&#23'.  But I'm not an XML guru so don't
trust me on either one!

                               Andrew Dalke
                               dalke@acm.org


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