#91 Entities in Output Arg Are Inconsistent

[Vhati]

When querying an doc, the linux build interprets xml entities in the output arg, but the windows build escapes them.
-o "{amp}#126;"
On Linux, prints a tilde.
On windows, prints {amp}amp;#126;

Example:
wget -t 1 -T 2 -O - -q "http://freshmeat.net/?format=atom" | xmlstarlet sel -N x="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" -t -m "/x:feed/x:entry" -v "x:title" -o "{amp}#126;" -v "x:link/@href" -n

* Replace {amp} above with literal ampersands.

[Noam Postavsky]

Is it possible your Linux box has an older version? What's the output from --version on each box?

[Vhati]

> Is it possible your Linux box has an older version?
Oh. Good call.
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Windows: 1.3.1
Debian: 1.0.2

Still, xml-escaping the user-given output arg in 1.3.1 doesn't seem like intended behavior.

[Noam Postavsky]

> Debian: 1.0.2
Right, -o takes its argument literally since version 1.0.3 (fixing bug #1912978). Note that the escaping is done because sel outputs XML by default, if you are in text mode (-T, or --text) you won't see any escaping.