Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] replacing " with "

[Waylan L. <wa...@gm...>]

Thanks for the feedback guys. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't
missing anything before commiting the change. Oh, and Michel, thanks
for the reminder about attributes. Python-markdown's dom should make
that easy to do.

On Jan 5, 2008 10:29 AM, Yuri Takhteyev <qar...@gm...> wrote:
> I agree with Michel, that it's better to not escape things where it's
> not necessary.
>
> If you want to fix it, the place to do is the method
> Document.normalizeEntities(), which is now called in two places:
>
> 1. in Element.toxml() separately for each attribute
> 2. in TextNode.toxml() for the whole thing
>
> The quickest fix would be to add an extra keyword parameter to this
> function: something like "skip_quotes" and call with this parameter in
> the second case.  Note that "<", ">", and "&" need to be replaced in
> both cases.
>
>   - yuri
>
> On Jan 5, 2008 4:51 AM, Michel Fortin <mic...@mi...> wrote:
>
> > > So, my question is: Which implementation do you consider correct
> > > and why?
> >
> > I'd say both are correct since, within HTML or XML character data, a
> > character entity is semantically equivalent to the litteral character
> > it represents. But for the sake of compatibility with other
> > processing tools, I'd avoid using an entity for strait quotes (or any
> > other character for that matter) when it's not necessary.
>
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