[Petal] [REQ] Escape HTML entities

[Chris Croome]

Hi

On Mon 18-Aug-2003 at 03:42:20PM +0100, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote:
> 
> Mhhh... that's a known bug, it's documented at the end of the Petal POD:
> 
> -------------------------------- %< ---------------------------------
> 
> KNOWN BUGS
>   The XML::Parser wrapper only cannot expand entities
>   "&lt;", "&gt;", "&amp;" and "&quot;". Besides, I can't get
>   it to NOT expand entities in 'Stream' mode.
> 
>   HTML::TreeBuilder expands all entities,
>   hence &nbsp;s are lost / converted to whitespaces.
> 
>   XML::Parser is deprecated and should be replaced by SAX
>   handlers at some point.
> 
> -------------------------------- >% ---------------------------------
> 
> So if you find a way to do any of these things it would make everybody's
> life much better.
> 
> Any ideas?

I guess you know about this module:

  HTML::Entities
  http://search.cpan.org/author/GAAS/HTML-Parser-3.30/lib/HTML/Entities.pm

I don't know if it supports XHTML or if would be of any use for
this?

Chris

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