lxml

Values in attributes are not being decoded while writing to file

Bug #1853640 reported by Fabio
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Bug Description

The following XHTML is an XHTML snnipet that was written to a file using a ElementTree object.

tmpf = open('tmp2.html', 'wb')
etree.ElementTree(xhtml).write(tmpf, pretty_print=True, encoding='utf-8')

The content in head/meta[@content] is the same of head/meta but while writing to the file, only the content in the element is decoded.

<head xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
  <meta name="license" content="Tous droits r&#xE9;serv&#xE9;s &#xA9; Approches inductives, 2014">Tous droits réservés © Approches inductives, 2014</meta>
</head>

ENVIRONMENT:

Python : sys.version_info(major=3, minor=6, micro=7, releaselevel='final', serial=0)
lxml.etree : (4, 3, 3, 0)
libxml used : (2, 9, 9)
libxml compiled : (2, 9, 9)
libxslt used : (1, 1, 33)
libxslt compiled : (1, 1, 33)

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Fabio (fabiobatalha)
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scoder (scoder) wrote :

I can't reproduce this, but … is it a problem?

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Fabio (fabiobatalha) wrote :

From my point of view this is a problem once when you write the content in a file using the appropriate encoding the least you expect is to have a consistent result which means to have all the content displayed in a readable matter.

One of the properties of XML is the readability capacity.

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