Hi Alex,

Thanks for your email.

I'm somewhat confused by what you say. Through investigation, it seems 
html->sxml will decode entities, so long as they aren't within a HTML element 
attribute. Could you clarify on whether that default applies globally or just 
to attributes?

Thanks,
Philip

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From: Alex Shinn <[email protected]>
Sent: 04 September 2013 03:51
To: Philip Kent
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] html->sxml (html-parser egg) does not decode 
entities in html attributes, ideas why?

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Philip Kent 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi all,

I noticed an issue today with the html-parser egg, where it does not seem to 
decode entities within an attribute of an element, I have included an example 
below.

#;14> (html->sxml "<div data-foo=\"&quot;\">")
(*TOP* (div (@ (data-foo "&quot;"))))

Expected: (*TOP* (div (@ (data-foo "\""))))

I was wondering if anyone could provide some thoughts as to why this might be 
happening? I have taken a look at the html-parser egg but have not seen much 
(but then this goes far beyond my knowledge of scheme!)

html-parser processes entities, but the default for html->sxml
is just to leave the encoded as-is.  I'm not sure if that's the best
default, but will at least provide a convenient option to get
the decoded strings.

--
Alex

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