DO NOT REPLY [Bug 1604] - Scriptable HTML attributes need to be returned unescaped

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Scriptable HTML attributes need to be returned unescaped

keshlam@us.ibm.com changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Severity|Normal                      |Enhancement



------- Additional Comments From keshlam@us.ibm.com  2001-10-05 12:01 -------
The escaping rules are defined very specifically, and we have to follow them for 
compatability with other XSLT processors 
(see http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-HTML-Output-Method for the details). 

As far as I can tell, there is no special provision there for scriptable 
attributes, though there is for scriptable elements and for attributes 
containing URIs.

I don't think that leaves us with a lot of choice in this matter, at least in 
normal operation. If we wanted to create a subclass of the serializer which 
provided this functionality, and make it a custom feature of Xalan (<xsl:output 
mode="xalan_smarter_html"/> or something like that), that might be possible.

So unless I've misssed something, I think we have to knock this down to 
Enhancement