well-formed xml

Martin Bertolino martinbertolino at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 27 09:17:44 EDT 2002


I believe you document should be encoded as:

<a href='http://google.com/search?hl=en&q=foobar'>search</a>

Martin

"Mark McEahern" <mark at mceahern.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1033085436.9260.python-list at python.org>...
> I'm obviously missing something because this seemingly innocent chunk of
> xhtml:
> 
>   from xml.dom import minidom
> 
>   s = "<a href='http://google.com/search?hl=en&q=foobar'>search</a>"
>   #                                             ^
>   #                                             - seems to be the problem
>   #
>   # maybe it thinks I'm trying to reference the &q entity?
> 
>   doc = minidom.parseString(s)
> 
> Exception traceback follows.
> 
> Is there a way for me to tell it to ignore apparent entity references inside
> attribute values?
>



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