[Haskell-cafe] HaXml: ampersand in attribute value

[Lennart Augustsson]

But speaking of HaXml bugs, I'm pretty sure HaXml doesn't handle
% correctly.  It seem to treat % specially everywhere, but I think
it is only special inside DTDs.  I have many XML files produced by
other tools that the HaXml parser fails to process because of this.

	-- Lennart

Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> Koen.Roelandt at mineco.fgov.be wrote:
>> HaXml seems to choke on finding an ampersand in an attribute value. Is 
>> this normal? Is there any workaround?
> 
> Yes, it is expected.  An ampersand indicates the start of a reference, 
> e.g. < or   If there is no semicolon to indicate the end of the 
> reference, then it is a parse error.  The XML specification is quite 
> clear that neither & nor < are valid standalone characters in an 
> attribute value.
> 
> Regards,
>     Malcolm
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