[PythonReports-devel] [ pythonreports-Bugs-1846113 ] XML entity references are not encoded

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Bugs item #1846113, was opened at 2007-12-07 22:27
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Category: Report building
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Bruce Schultz (halfcat)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: XML entity references are not encoded

Initial Comment:
I have a record in my database which has an ampersand character '&' in it. Building the report seems to go ok, but when parsing the report for printing, it throws an exception.  If I manually change the & to & in the .prp file, it parses ok.

I think the solution is to make sure that the XML is correctly escaped, and I'm attaching a patch which does that.


The exception which got thrown in the parser when generating the pdf:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "PythonReports/pdf.py", line 435, in ?
    run()
  File "PythonReports/pdf.py", line 432, in run
    write(_printout, _pdf)
  File "PythonReports/pdf.py", line 420, in write
    PdfWriter(report).write(filepath)
  File "PythonReports/pdf.py", line 68, in __init__
    self.report = prp.load(report)
  File
"/home/bruce/projects/pythonreports/PythonReports-0.3.1/PythonReports/printout.py",
line 131, in load
    _et.parse(source)
  File
"/home/bruce/projects/pythonreports/PythonReports-0.3.1/PythonReports/datatypes.py",
line 1233, in parse
    _root = ET.ElementTree.parse(self, source, parser)
  File "<string>", line 32, in parse
SyntaxError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 3869, column 38

Line 3869 in the .prp was a <data> element which contained the '&' in  it.


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