GNU bug report logs - #75998
[guile-lib] html->sxml does not decode entities in attributes

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Package: guile;

Reported by: Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz>

Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2025 20:11:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Forwarded to oleg@okmij.org

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: David Pirotte <david <at> altosw.be>
Cc: 75998 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz>, tomas <at> tuxteam.de
Subject: bug#75998: [guile-lib] html->sxml does not decode entities in attributes
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2025 21:47:18 +0900
Hi,

David Pirotte <david <at> altosw.be> writes:

> Hi Maxim,
> Thomas,
>
>> But this here could well be considered a bug.  So perhaps something
>> we could do is fix this correctly, and bump at least the minor digit
>> in our version (we're still in an unstable 0 version (last one was
>> 0.2.8.1), so technically we don't promise stability yet (perhaps
>> never, as this guile-lib project aims to be a lab for components that
>> could later be included in Guile).  But we should communicate this
>> change well in the NEWS file.
>
> 1+ for
>
> 	a proper fix
> 	bump the version to 0.3.0
> 	well written NEWS entry(ies)
> 		clearly state that the htmlprag module was fixed, in a
> 		way that users who locally applied their own work
> 		around to the fixed problem/bug will have to review
> 		their code and adpat to this new version ...

Thanks for weighing in.

Tomas, is it a fix you'd be interested in contributing?  Otherwise, I'll
get to it but my hands are rather full at the moment :-).

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim




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