Re: [[email protected]: Bug#283763: tidy: Error in XML file not detected]

Bjoern Hoehrmann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.html-tidy.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* Jason Thomas wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> an XML file that contains something like
>> 
>> <field value="aa<bb>cc"/>
>> 
>> is not well-formed because the < and > must be escaped (eg. with &lt; and
>> &gt;) even within quotes. tidy -xml doesn't detect this. Other tools such
>> as xmllint do.

Yeah, well, Tidy is basically not designed to complain about this, it
auto-matically corrects the error. We have feature requests concerning
more error messages for such things, but basically you are better off
using a real XML processor for this.
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