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

Tomas Volf <[email protected]> Wed, 05 Feb 2025 18:57:29 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.lisp.guile.devel
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"Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <[email protected]> writes:

>> I see few ways forward:
>>
>> 1. Document the current behavior and keep it as it is.
>> 2. Add argument #:decode-attributes, defaulting to #f, to the relevant
>>    procedures, so that people can opt into the fixed behavior.
>> 3. Introduce parameter %decode-attributes, so that people can opt into
>>    the fixed behavior.
>>
>> I am sure there are also other approaches possible.
>
> Since htmlprag already uses parameters for customization
> (%strict-tokenizer?), option 3 sounds best to me.
>
> http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/gitweb/?p=guile-lib.git;a=blob;f=src/htmlprag.scm;h=79a7b2f33b0755474bfc015912c01bdf6c676a15;hb=HEAD#l44
>
> (but I’m not the maintainer, so others may have a different opinion)
>
> Can you create a patch?

Probably not.  I have spent 20 minutes staring into the file and do not
really have any idea where to start (ok, probably somewhere around
`scan-attr').  So I cannot really promise I will be able to work on this
(at least not soon), since I assume it will take me long time to figure
out.

Tomas

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