[ tidy-Bugs-1256372 ] numeric-entities always has same effect in config file

Bugs item #1256372, was opened at 2005-08-11 03:32
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Category: HTML/XML/XHTML Parser
Group: Current - all platforms
Status: Open
Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Submitted By: apopheniac (apopheniac)
Assigned to: Björn Höhrmann (hoehrmann)
Summary: numeric-entities always has same effect in config file

Initial Comment:
1) WithHTML Tidy for Mac OS X released on 1st December 2004 
and using a configuration file (e.g. config.txt - see file contents 
below), like this
tidy -config config.txt -o tidytest2.htm tidytest.htm
tidy always converts HTML entities like   and – in 
the input file to numeric equivalents (  and – for the 
examples given), whether I set the numeric-entities variable to yes 
or no, like this
numeric-entities: yes
or like this:
numeric-entities: no

2) If I comment out the numeric-entities line, the HTML entities 
are left as is (i.e., are not converted to numeric entities).

3) Similarly, with a command like
tidy -o tidytest2.htm tidytest.htm
the HTML entities are left as is (i.e., are not converted to numeric 
entities).

4) I would expect that "numeric-entities: no" would leave HTML 
entities untouched -- i.e., that tidy would behave the same as it 
only does now WITHOUT any numeric-entities line in the 
configuration file.

Here is the configuration file I am using (notice last the few 
comments):
-------begin file-------
indent: auto
indent-spaces: 2
//wrap: 72
wrap: 0  //no wrap
//clean: yes
enclose-text: yes
//error-file: HTMLTidy_errs.txt
markup: yes
output-xml: no
input-xml: no
show-warnings: yes
numeric-entities: yes
//must comment out or delete above line to disable numeric entity 
substitution -
//whether set "yes" or "no," always produces numeric entities
quote-marks: yes
quote-nbsp: yes
quote-ampersand: no
break-before-br: no
tidy-mark: no
uppercase-tags: no
uppercase-attributes: no
char-encoding: latin1 //error occurs even when this line is 
commented out
new-inline-tags: cfif, cfelse, math, mroot, 
  mrow, mi, mn, mo, msqrt, mfrac, msubsup, munderover,
  munder, mover, mmultiscripts, msup, msub, mtext,
  mprescripts, mtable, mtr, mtd, mth
new-blocklevel-tags: cfoutput, cfquery
new-empty-tags: cfelse
-------end file-------

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>Comment By: Arnaud Desitter (arnaud02)
Date: 2005-08-11 11:38

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Where is tidytest.htm ?


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Comment By: Björn Höhrmann (hoehrmann)
Date: 2005-08-11 05:35

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Yes, Tidy won't generate entities if it does not generate a 
document type declaration aswell. Since you seem to use 
proprietary elements the option is ignored. 

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