From grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca Fri Aug 11 13:23:05 2000 Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 13:45:25 -0500 (CDT) From: Gilles Detillieux To: Gilles Detillieux Cc: Roger Salisbury , htdig@htdig.org Subject: Re: [htdig] Still Having problem with & According to Gilles Detillieux: > OK, I found a bug in htdig/HTML.cc, which I think causes it to think the > "&" isn't translated to "&", so it copies the whole entity through. > I'll see if I can find a sensible fix. Thanks for persisting. Could you please give this patch a try and tell me if it fixes this problem, without breaking anything else? It should do for 3.2.0b1, 3.2.0b2, and any recent 3.2.0bx snapshot. --- htdig/HTML.cc.orig Wed May 24 07:42:43 2000 +++ htdig/HTML.cc Fri Aug 11 13:41:32 2000 @@ -259,8 +259,8 @@ HTML::parse(Retriever &retriever, URL &b scratch = 0; scratch.append((char*)position, q+1 - position); textified = HtSGMLCodec::instance()->encode(scratch); - if (textified[0] != '&') // it was decoded, copy it - { + if (textified[0] != '&' || textified.length() == 1) + { // it was decoded, copy it position = (unsigned char *)textified.get(); while (*position) { -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766 Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930 ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the htdig mailing list, send a message to htdig-unsubscribe@htdig.org You will receive a message to confirm this.