[Expat-discuss] Pb with & and & in parsing
Marcin Zdun
dino at aiesec.pwr.wroc.pl
Tue May 20 20:59:07 EDT 2003
On Tue, 20 May 2003, Renaud Binse wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a strange problem with expat and perl. Im parsing a xml file with
> things like &. After parsing, they are translated to &.
>
> For example, with <tag1>gfgffghfh & fdsfdsf</tag1> I get gfgffghfh &
> fdsfdsf
>
> And its the same problem with quotes
Is there a way to deactivate that ?
> Or is it an encoding problem ?
>
There is no way of deactivating this, and this is behaviour as in specs
(http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-physical-struct): all recognized
entities are expanded by parser for application. So & becomes &, <
- <, and so on
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