& XSLT On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:58:53 +0200, Petr Pajas <pajas@[...].cz>   
wrote:

>  2009/10/9 Nicolas Mendoza <mendoza@[...].no>:
> > On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:51:32 +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis  
> > <pagaltzis@[...].de>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> * Nicolas Mendoza <mendoza@[...].no> [2009-10-09 17:55]:
> >>> Is there some way to keep the entities intact when parsing and
> >>> serlalizing numeric entities?
> >>
> >> Why would you want such a thing?
> >>
> >
> > Because I'm feeding it data and I want it to come out the same way? Just
> > like &amp; does. (I want to distinguish an incoming &#39; and "'". So I
> > don't want it to alter my valid XML data, basically.)
> >
> > Actually it's a bit surprising that libxml2 does that.
> 
>  Huh? There is absolutly nothing surprising about that, it is an XML
>  parser? Programming XML would be hell if XML parsers didn't do this.
> > From the XML point of view, &#39; and ' are the same thing! Read the
>  XML spec.
> 
>  To be fair, there are few cases when particular formatting matters,
>  but those are (supposed to be) dealt with by XML C14N (and possibly
>  XML Encryption and XML Signature).
> 

I think I can sympathize with your sentiments, but I'm not sure I can  
agree 100% that altering in-data is the optimal way of functioning. No  
matter if they are the same in theory.

Why would it be hell if XML parsers didn't convert numeric entities to  
ASCII, UTF-8 (or whatever charset is possible/available at the time) on  
serialization?



-- 
Nicolas Mendoza
http://my.opera.com/nicomen
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