[FOR-241] character entities (e.g. ampersand) are expanded again for href or src attributes

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9
• Fix Version/s: 0.9
• Component/s: Core operations
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Diwaker Gupta
• Created: 03/Aug/04 04:00
• Updated: 03/Dec/09 04:08
• Resolved: 03/Dec/09 04:08

Description

If I have a url like this inside the XML source:

http://sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=comics-grabber&type=1

validate-xdocs fails because it wants the literal & to be typed out as
& instead. So I correct it to become:

http://sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=comics-grabber&type=1

However, the generated HTML has the entity resolution UNDONE!:

http://sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=comics-grabber&type=1

This HTML fails validation as 4.01 transitional.

David Crossley adds:
There is a demonstration of the problem in the document
src/documentation/content/xdocs/docs/dreams.xml
The ampersand in the link element text is properly handled but
the ampersand in the link href attribute is not.