Bug #18568 for HTML-Tree: HTML::TreeBuilder mangles decimal number entities

Thu Apr 06 12:55:24 2006 Guest - Ticket created

Subject:

HTML::TreeBuilder mangles decimal number entities

use HTML::TreeBuilder; my $TB = HTML::TreeBuilder->new(); my $html = $TB->parse("This ſoftware has ſome bugs")->eof->element\ ify(); print $html->as_HTML(""); The content output from this program is not the same as the input. The input contains "&#17f" and "&#383". The output has erroneously translated this to "&#17f" and "&#383".

Sat Nov 11 16:23:12 2006 PETEK [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Thu Apr 06 12:55:24 2006, guest wrote: Show quoted text

> The content output from this program is not the same as the input. The > input contains "&#17f" and "&#383". The output has erroneously > translated this to "&#17f" and "&#383".

There are two things going on here. One is that HTML::TreeBuilder was erroneously re-encoding entities such as ſ by escaping &. This has been fixed in 3.22, which will be released on CPAN this weekend as part of the Chicago Hackathon. The other, unfixable in HTML::TreeBuilder, is that HTML::Parser re-encodes both of the above to ſ instead of their original forms. Since HTML::TreeBuilder's parse method comes from HTML::Parser, this would have to be changed in the XS for HTML::Parser. However, I'm not convinced it's a bug, since they're the same entity when decoded. Will mark as resolved when 3.22 hits CPAN.

Sat Nov 11 16:23:13 2006 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Sat Nov 11 18:11:30 2006 PETEK [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'stalled'

Sun Nov 12 12:24:41 2006 PETEK [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'stalled' to 'resolved'

Sun Nov 12 12:24:41 2006 PETEK [...] cpan.org - Fixed in 3.22 added