[XML-SIG] Character entities (XHTML)

Thomas B. Passin tpassin@comcast.net
Thu, 09 May 2002 20:09:01 -0400


[Martin v. Loewis]

> "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@comcast.net> writes:
>
> > I've replicated Andrew's results using Py2.1.3 and Pyxml 0.7.  The two
xhtml
> > entities are getting silently lost, in that they do not appear in the
> > output, neither as characters nor as character references.
>
> That's partially a bug in expatreader, which has been fixed in
> expatreader.py 1.22.
>
> The other part of the problem is that the entity resolver will need to
> resolve the HTML DTD.
>

It seems to have done so - at least, if the DTD is removed, the document is
rejected by virtue of unknown entities.  Doesn't that that indicate that the
(x)HTML DTD was resolved?

Cheers,

Tom P