Re: [Chicken-users] html->sxml (html-parser egg) does not decode entities in html attributes, ideas why?

[Philip Kent]

Hi Alex,

Excellent! Thanks for looking into it and for the tip re custom parsers - I was trying to understand that code!

Philip

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From: Alex Shinn <address@hidden>
Sent: 04 September 2013 14:00
To: Philip Kent
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] html->sxml (html-parser egg) does not decode entities in html attributes, ideas why?

 

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Philip Kent <address@hidden> wrote:

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?

Yes, sorry, I misread my own code :)

The default is to _decode_ entities:

#;1> (html->sxml "&quot;")

(*TOP* "\"")

And as you say, it currently doesn't just process attributes:

#;2> (html->sxml "<div data-foo=\"&quot;\">")

(*TOP* (div (@ (data-foo "&quot;"))))

I'll fix this.

What I was referring to before is that you can customize

what is done with entities with

 (make-html-parser 'entity: (lambda (name) ...))

and can customize non-default entity names:

 (make-html-parser 'entities: '(("quot" . "\"") ...))

but again, these are currently ignored in attributes.

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Alex