[cfe-commits] [PATCH] Comment parsing: resolve HTML character references (e.g., & -> &)

[Jordan Rose]

On Jul 25, 2012, at 14:54 , Dmitri Gribenko <gribozavr at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Jordan Rose <jordan_rose at apple.com> wrote:
>> This seems like a very bad idea when I have this in a comment:
>> 
>> <em>0<i</em>
>> 
>> If you expand the '<', you end up with invalid HTML. Entities are
>> supposed to be entities when they come out the other end.
> 
> '<' will be expanded in the internal representation.  HTML renderer
> will escape HTML special characters back.

…as long as my test case is emitted unchanged, I don't mind, but I think it's non-trivial to expand entities in "<em>0<i</em>" and keep track of which "<" are supposed to be escaped.