I can work around this by doing a Str replace of with   before I parse the XML string:
xml := "<html> </html>"
xml = xml.replace(" ", " ")
doc := XParser(xml.in).parseDoc
Sizzle.selectFromStr(xml, "html")
But I don't really want to do a Str replace for each and every valid HTML entity, of which there are hundreds.
Instead, it would be nice if XParser allowed undeclared entities, requiring a simple change of the XParser.toCharData() method. Specifically, changing line 808 from:
throw err("Unsupported entity &${entity};")
to
return "&${entity};"
Though you may want to make this behaviour optional (for backwards compatibility) by making it optional:
// via field
XParser(xml.in) {it.allowUndeclaredEntities = true}
// via an options map
XParser(xml.in).parseDoc(["allowUndeclaredEntities":true])
How about it?
SlimerDudeSun 26 Jan 2014
Hmm... after poking around the net, it seems that named entities aren't recommended in XHTML5. From HTML_vs._XHTML on WHATWG:
Do not use entity references in XHTML (except for the 5 predefined entities: &, <, >, " and '); use the equivalent Unicode or numeric character reference sequence instead.
So I guess I should man up, make sure the pages are proper XHTML5 and deal with them myself!
SlimerDude Sun 26 Jan 2014
When working with Sizzle I parse the XHTML with
XParser.parseDoc(), but I often get:I can work around this by doing a Str replace of
with before I parse the XML string:xml := "<html> </html>" xml = xml.replace(" ", " ") doc := XParser(xml.in).parseDoc Sizzle.selectFromStr(xml, "html")But I don't really want to do a Str replace for each and every valid HTML entity, of which there are hundreds.
Instead, it would be nice if
XParserallowed undeclared entities, requiring a simple change of theXParser.toCharData()method. Specifically, changing line 808 from:throw err("Unsupported entity &${entity};")to
return "&${entity};"Though you may want to make this behaviour optional (for backwards compatibility) by making it optional:
// via field XParser(xml.in) {it.allowUndeclaredEntities = true} // via an options map XParser(xml.in).parseDoc(["allowUndeclaredEntities":true])How about it?
SlimerDude Sun 26 Jan 2014
Hmm... after poking around the net, it seems that named entities aren't recommended in XHTML5. From HTML_vs._XHTML on WHATWG:
So I guess I should man up, make sure the pages are proper XHTML5 and deal with them myself!
See: