& XSLT On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:30:45 +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@[...].de>   
wrote:

>  * Nicolas Mendoza <mendoza@[...].no> [2009-10-10 12:20]:
> > So, given that we accept this, why is &amp; not converted to "'"?
> 
>  You mean `&`.
> 
>  It is, when parsing. But it has to be escaped for the XML to
>  be valid, so when generating output, it is expressed as `&amp;`.
>  If you write it `&#38;` in the input (which means the same `&`
>  character), you’ll see that the output still comes out `&amp;`
>  and not `&#38;`. Because it’s the same thing.
> 
>  You still haven’t told us why you would want this. Are you using
>  software that processes XML documents, but as text blobs rather
>  than as XML documents? Or do you want it for legibility of the
>  output?
> 
>  Regards,

I basically want to distinguish two different data sources, after parsing  
them as XML and merging them, so I thought it was possible to use entities  
in one of them explicitly, and the other not.

I see now that it's ONLY &amp; that is kept as-is. I was falsely under the  
impression that named entities was handled different from numeric  
entities, but I see now that this is not the case. Hence my original issue  
with lack of consistency is invalid.

$ perl -wle 'use XML::LibXML; my $x = XML::LibXML-> new(); my $d =  
$x-> parse_string("<xml>&apos; &#39; \x27</xml>"); print $d->toString();'
<?xml version="1.0"?> 
<xml> ' ' '</xml>

Thanks for the info everyone and sorry for your waste of time ;-)

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