Re: [guile-lib] html->sxml does not decode entities in attributes

"Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <[email protected]> Wed, 05 Feb 2025 12:38:08 +0100

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Hi Felix,

Felix Lechner via "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" <[email protected]> writes:
> On Tue, Feb 04 2025, Tomas Volf wrote:
>> automatically decoding now would lead to double decoding.
>
> Will a second decoding step for HTML entities, which is the most likely
> workaround, mess up strings like "a&b" or "bbb\"ccc'ddd" ?

Yes, for examplpe when including actually encoded data which then cannot
be provided at all.

data-attributes are nowadays used to provide actual data used via
dataset, so attributes can contain arbitrary data:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/HTML/Global_attributes/data-*

Best wishes,
Arne
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