Re: contrib/xml2: add function xml_encode_special_chars

В Вск, 07.11.2004, в 09:33, Simon Riggs пишет:
> On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 23:42, Markus Bertheau wrote:
> > В Сбт, 06.11.2004, в 23:13, Simon Riggs пишет:
> > > On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 00:36, Markus Bertheau wrote:
> > > > В Сбт, 06.11.2004, в 01:24, Peter Eisentraut пишет:
> > > > > 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 :)

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