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

Bugs item #1256372, was opened at 2005-08-10 22:32
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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: apopheniac (apopheniac)
Date: 2005-08-12 00:22

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Thank you for your comments and requests for clarification.

The configuration file given in my original report was obtained from a tidy 
support page where it was given as an example.

With the following configuration file tidy behaves as I expect -- HTML 
named entities are NOT changed to numeric entities. Whereas with the 
file originally submitted, they are changed in both cases when numeric-
entities is set either Yes or No.

-------begin configuration file-------
numeric-entities: no
-------end configuration file-------

I've attached tidytest.htm, which includes a document declaration. The 
problem is not that tidy ignores the numeric-entities parameter, but that, 
with the original configuration file, it ALWAYS changes HTML named 
entities to numeric entities WHENEVER a numeric-entities line appears 
in the configuration file -- whether numeric-entities is set EITHER True 
OR False.

Deleting the new-inline-tags and new-empty-tags lines from the original 
configuration file does produce the "correct" (expected) behavior. But 
again, with those lines intact, the numeric-entities line is NOT ignored; 
rather named HTML entities are ALWAYS changed to numeric entities. 
This differs from the case where the numeric-entities line is absent (in 
which case named HTML entities remain intact).

I still maintain that a bug exists. If other settings (e.g. new-inline-tags, 
new-empty-tags) should cause the numeric-entities setting to be 
ignored, then named entities should remain untouched by tidy.

Does this help?


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Comment By: Arnaud Desitter (arnaud02)
Date: 2005-08-11 06:38

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Where is tidytest.htm ?


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Comment By: Björn Höhrmann (hoehrmann)
Date: 2005-08-11 00:35

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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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