On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 12:56, Markus Bertheau wrote: > Ð ÐÑÐ, 07.11.2004, Ð 09:33, Simon Riggs ÐÐÑÐÑ: > > On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 23:42, Markus Bertheau wrote: > > > Ð ÐÐÑ, 06.11.2004, Ð 23:13, Simon Riggs ÐÐÑÐÑ: > > > > On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 00:36, Markus Bertheau wrote: > > > > > Ð ÐÐÑ, 06.11.2004, Ð 01:24, Peter Eisentraut ÐÐÑÐÑ: > > > > > > Markus Bertheau wrote: > > > > > > > attached is a patch that adds the function > > > > > > > xml_encode_special_chars > > > > > > > to the xml2 contrib module. It's against 8.0beta4. It's intended > > > > > > > for > > > > > > > commit. > > > > > > > > > > > > Would you also tell us what this function does? > > > > > > > > > > It calls the similarly named function from libxml2. It replaces > > > > > characters that carry a special meaning in XML (<, >, &, " and \r) > > > > > with > > > > > their respective XML entities. > > > > > > > > Wow! Hadn't noticed xml2 didn't do that. Thats pretty important... > > > > > > What do you mean, it didn't do that? Where had you expected it to do > > > that? > > > > eh? I'm agreeing that your patch is important... > > I didn't question that :) I just don't understand what you mean with > "xml2 doesn't do that" - do you mean that you thought that that function > was already there? Or that special character encoding already takes > place somewhere else in xml2? I can't imagine where that would be, so I > asked :)
I mistakenly assumed that the special character encoding took place automatically, without calling a specific function. It's pretty fragile without that, but you could go a long way before the lack of it hit you in the face, then no further. -- Best Regards, Simon Riggs ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
