[Mapserver-dev] XML Entities

[Daniel Morissette]

Tanks.  I've added the aportrophe to the msEncode/DecodeHTMLEntities() 
functions in the 4.1 (CVS) source.

Daniel


Paul Ramsey wrote:
> Those are in fact the 5 (and only 5) built in entities. A "safety first" 
> approach to XML would do them all. Any XML parser will re-expand them to 
> the real characters, so it cannot hurt, only help.
> P.
> 
> Daniel Morissette wrote:
> 
>> Paul Ramsey wrote:
>>
>>> Er, expansion, the following substitutions should be done:
>>>
>>> <   &lt;
>>>  >   &gt;
>>> "   &quot;
>>> &   &amp;
>>> '   &apos;
>>>
>>
>> If we decide to go that route then a call to msEncodeHTMLEntities() 
>> (mapstring.c) can be used to do that.  BTW, should the "'" (&apos) 
>> really be encoded?  If you can confirm that it needs to be then we can 
>> quickly add it to the function.
>>
>> Daniel
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