< and > not correctly parsed

[jazzynico]

Hi,

< and > are sometimes used in Inkscape's tutorials (tracing, tips...).
But when I scour that text:
<flowDiv xml:space="preserve">One of the features in Inkscape is a tool for tracing a bitmap image
into a &lt;path&gt; element for your SVG drawing. These short notes
should help you become acquainted with how it works.
</flowDiv>

&lt; is replaced with < and I get:
<flowDiv xml:space="preserve">One of the features in Inkscape is a tool for tracing a bitmap image
into a <path&gt; element for your SVG drawing. These short notes
should help you become acquainted with how it works.
</flowDiv>

And Inkscape returns an error if I try to open it.

Commenting the following lines:
 # encode > as &gt; (TODO: is this necessary?)
 if str.find('>') != -1:
  newstr = str.replace('>', '&gt;')

in def makeWellFormed(str) fixes this issue.

But can &lt;MyText> considered valid?

Regards.

[codedread (codedread)]

Thanks for catching this, Nico!

I have fixed this in my local copy. Will checkin tonight, but for now you can replace the makeWellFormed() function with this:

def makeWellFormed(str):
 newstr = ''
 xml_ents = { '<':'&lt;', '>':'&gt;', '&':'&amp;', "'":'&apos;', '"':'&quot;'}
 for c in str:
  if c in xml_ents:
   newstr += xml_ents[c]
  else:
   newstr += c

 return newstr

Sorry about the trouble.

[codedread (codedread)]

Ok, pushed in r158.