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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: How does a filter include special characters in QDom text?
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-06-24 13:04:35
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I suggest sending a mail to Torben <weis@kde.org> since he wrote
all those classes ;-)

On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 10:50:37AM +0100, Shaheed Haque wrote:
> Strange. I think that there may be some inconsistency here between the 
> various components. Here is what I can see:
> 
> qdom.cpp
> --------
> 
> encodeAttr() recognises '<', '"' and '&', but not any of the others - though 
> for all I know, that may be a part of the XML rules.
> 
> encodeEntity() recognises '%', '"' and "&#", but not any of the others. 
> Again, this may be the XML spec for all I know.
> 
> qxml.cpp
> --------
> 
> replaceEntities() recognises '&', '<', '>', '"', '\'' and "&#"
> 
> parse() recognises '&', '<', '>', '"', '\'', "&#" and "&#x"
> 
> koml.cc
> -------
> 
> encode() recognises '<' and '>'.
> 
> Note that I'm not conversant with the assumptions that XML allows the code 
> to make, so not all the differences might be significant). I also have 
> missed out non-simple entities inthe above list (since I don't know what 
> they are!).
> 
> The other clue in all this is that kword's .kwd documents do in fact contain 
> '&' without any expansion to "&amp;" in text (even though '<' and '>'are 
> expanded). My concern is that I cannot tell if this is correct 
> behaviour...can anyone clarify this?
> 
> 
> >From: Simon Hausmann <shaus@neuro2.med.uni-magdeburg.de>
> >Reply-To: koffice@master.kde.org
> >To: koffice@master.kde.org
> >Subject: Re: How does a filter include special characters in QDom text?
> >Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 01:15:58 +0200 (MET DST)
> >
> >
> >
> >On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Shaheed Haque wrote:
> >
> > > I'm having trouble with importing special characters such as "&" using 
> >the
> > > MSWord filter, with QDom complaining about parsing errors.
> > >
> > > After looking through the QDom/QXML code, I think I have to replace as
> > > follows:
> > >
> > >             '<'  -> "&lt;"
> > >             '>'  -> "&gt;";
> > >             '"'  -> "&quot;"
> > >             '&'  -> "&amp;"
> > >             '\'' -> "&apos;"
> > >
> > > Questions:
> > >
> > > 1. Is this correct (and is the list complete)?
> >
> >Yes
> >
> > > 2. It seems that QXMLParser does not bother to replace the expanded form
> > > with the required character - what am I doing wrong?
> >
> >Hmm, I think it does. But it might be a bug in the KOML parser, which is
> >used for parsing the xml for kword, instead of the QSAX parser...
> >
> >Bye,
> >  Simon
> >
> 
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