[ tidy-Feature Requests-1067539 ] quote-ampersand flag being ignored (xml mode)

Feature Requests item #1067539, was opened at 2004-11-16 19:18
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Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Peter Cooner (petri)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: quote-ampersand flag being ignored (xml mode)

Initial Comment:
It seems to me that tidy is ignoring the
quote-ampersand flag from both config and command line.

The config:
input-xml: yes
output-xml: yes
indent: auto
indent-spaces: 4
quote-ampersand: no
wrap: 0
new-pre-tags: literallayout, programlisting,
programlistingco, screen, screenco, screenshot
//--- end ---

Tidy versions tried:
HTML Tidy for Mac OS X released on 1st December 2002
(from Fink)
HTML Tidy for Mac OS X released on 1st July 2004 (from
homepage)

Any help would be much appreciated.



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Comment By: Björn Höhrmann (hoehrmann)
Date: 2004-11-17 23:34

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This is basically by design and I'd rather not touch the 
relevant code. A proper fix would introduce entity nodes as 
we discussed long ago on tidy-devel. We could special-case 
pure XML input + output (as opposed to XHTML) but that does 
not really add much as the XML mode is quite broken as it 
stands. So I think this would be better as a feature 
request.

You can change config.c:AdjustConfig(...) commenting the 
line with TidyQuoteAmpersand out and re-compile for a 
possible ad-hoc fix.

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Comment By: Peter Cooner (petri)
Date: 2004-11-17 22:12

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Yes of course. Keep in mind that I'm using docbook xml files
here, which have their own complex DTD file which I'm sure
tidy is just ignoring, and thats just fine by me.

The problem seems to be that docbook introduces their own
ampersand entities such as ® and &ch01;

These are being hosed by tidy :(

The option which seems to  be doing this is the
quote-ampersand flag. According to the documentation, "This
option specifies if Tidy should output unadorned &
characters as &."

Because tidy doesn't consider these add-on ampersand
entities as valid, they are then unadorned & characters
which then get turned into &

So for example:
&frontm;
&ch01;
&ch02;

Gets turned into:
&frontm; &ch01; &ch02;

And tidy spits out the warning:
line 27 column 1 - Warning: unescaped & or unknown entity
"&frontm"
line 28 column 1 - Warning: unescaped & or unknown entity
"&ch01"
line 29 column 1 - Warning: unescaped & or unknown entity
"&ch02"

I've attached smallest XML file which this happens in, but
it happens in many places throughout the docbook. Of course
tidy doesn't have much to do in this file, but its just an
example.

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Comment By: Arnaud Desitter (arnaud02)
Date: 2004-11-17 17:46

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Please post a minimal test case, minimal set of options for tidy
and explain why the results is not what you are expecting.


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Comment By: Peter Cooner (petri)
Date: 2004-11-17 17:01

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Note that I've now built this direct from CVS, and it gives
the same behavor.

Versions tried:
HTML Tidy for Mac OS X released on 1st September 2004 (CVSed
Nov 16th)

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