Re: [Docutils-users] docutils HTML writer fails to escape apostrophe

[David G. <go...@py...>]

Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
> How about a numeric entity?

Do we need to escape apostrophes (') at all?  I'd like to see some 
evidence first.  I've never had or heard of any problem.

The HTML 4 spec says:

     Four character entity references deserve special mention since
     they are frequently used to escape special characters:

     * "&lt;" represents the < sign.
     * "&gt;" represents the > sign.
     * "&amp;" represents the & sign.
     * "&quot; represents the " mark.

     ...

     Some authors use the character entity reference "&quot;" to encode
     instances of the double quote mark (") since that character may be
     used to delimit attribute values.

     -- http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html#h-5.3.2

It doesn't mention apostrophes.  Docutils only uses double-quotes (")
for attribute values in HTML output.

-- David Goodger