Re: [lxml] Why the character apostrophe is not escaped?

Hi,

I was wondering why the apostrophe is not automatically escaped as other characters?

Because it doesn't have to? http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126/#syntax

For example:

< is transformed to <

"<" and "&" must be escaped

and

...

is transformed to >

">" may be escaped (and must be in certain contexts)

but ' is not transformed to '

"'" (and '"') may be escaped) So maybe this is libxml2's decision of how to handle things, when there's a choice. Holger Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg Anstalt des oeffentlichen Rechts Hauptsitze: Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Mainz HRA 12704 Amtsgericht Stuttgart