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and subject line Closing old tidy-html5 bugs
has caused the Debian Bug report #607066,
regarding tidy should not generate entity references (except standard XML ones)
for XHTML
to be marked as done.
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607066: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=607066
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Package: tidy
Version: 20091223cvs-1
Severity: minor
For XHTML output, it is an error to generate entity references (except
the standard XML ones) as they are not guaranteed to work. Indeed
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/the-xhtml-syntax.html#writing-xhtml-documents
says:
Note: According to the XML specification, XML processors are not
guaranteed to process the external DTD subset referenced in the
DOCTYPE. This means, for example, that using entity references for
characters in XHTML documents is unsafe if they are defined in an
external file (except for <, >, &, " and ').
Numeric character references should be generated instead, i.e. when
XHTML output is generated, numeric-entities should be ignored (or at
least, it should default to "yes").
An example of the problem:
echo "é" | tidy -asxhtml
outputs:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
<head>
<meta name="generator" content=
"HTML Tidy for Linux (vers 25 March 2009), see www.w3.org" />
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
é
</body>
</html>
Note: web browsers should have no problems with entity references,
but remember that one of the purposes of XHTML (over HTML) is to
manipulate the files with XML tools.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages tidy depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libtidy-0.99-0 20091223cvs-1 HTML syntax checker and reformatte
tidy recommends no packages.
Versions of packages tidy suggests:
ii tidy-doc 20091223cvs-1 HTML syntax checker and reformatte
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 2:5.8.0-1
I am closing all the bugs that had been filled before 5.8.0 upstream version
that are **upstream** issues.
If the bug that you've reported can still be found in 5.8.0, please retest this,
make sure that the upstream bugs are actually filled upstream and reopen
the bug in Debian BTS and correctly set the "forwarded" attribute on the
issue.
Ondrej
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Ondřej Surý (He/Him)
ond...@sury.org
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