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Id: 125304
Status: rejected
Priority: 0/
Queue: XML-Twig
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Owner: MIROD [...] cpan.org
Requestors: chrispitude [...] gmail.com
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Severity: Important
Broken in: 3.52
Fixed in: (no value)

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  Sat May 12 11:05:15 2018 chrispitude [...] gmail.com - Ticket created
Subject: > HTML metacharacters in text are not preserved
We use HTML metacharacters in our text content. The &lt; (<) metacharacter is preserved, but the &gt; (>) metacharacter is not. You can reproduce this with the following short perl script: ==== #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use XML::Twig; my $t=XML::Twig->new(); $t->parse('<pre>&lt;hello&gt;</pre>'); $t->print(pretty_print => 'indented'); ==== The output is: <pre>&lt;hello></pre> ^ not escaped
  Sat May 12 11:08:15 2018 chrispitude [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added
Although - is this still valid/equivalent XML syntax, because the leading bracket is escaped and thus the trailing one does not have to be?
  Thu May 17 13:37:26 2018 MIROD [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Sat May 12 11:08:15 2018, chrispitude@gmail.com wrote: Show quoted text
> Although - is this still valid/equivalent XML syntax, because the > leading bracket is escaped and thus the trailing one does not have to > be?
Yes, escaping '>' is not needed, it is always valid (except in one edge case with CDATA sections). You can use the escape_gt option when you create the XML::Twig object to change the default behavior though. __ mirod
  Thu May 17 13:37:26 2018 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Sat May 19 07:15:19 2018 chrispitude [...] gmail.com - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'
  Sat May 19 07:17:00 2018 chrispitude [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added
Thanks! Then this is user error, as the behavior is valid *and* it is controllable. I have changed the status to 'rejected' (I hope this is correct!).