Bugs item #1411695, was opened at 2006-01-21 15:17
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Category: XML
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Mark Sandler (msandler)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: XML.sax.saxutils.escape -- always escapes <, >, &,
Initial Comment:
sax.saxutils.escape -- always escapes <, >, &, even
if entities are provided.
E.g.
escape("<abcd>", {'a':'\a'}) would produce
"<\abcd%rt;" instead of "<\abcd>"
While it might be expected behaviour, the documentation
states
"You can escape other strings of data by passing a
dictionary as the optional entities parameter. The keys
and values must all be strings; each key will be
replaced with its corresponding value. "
and it is not at all obvious that entities specify
_additional_ (to <, >, &) escape strings.
It is also impossible to do custom escapes of <,>,&
using saxutils.escape.
(while custom escapes of < and > might be never
necessary for XML, the escape function is general
enough to be of interest in other circumstances).
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