Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">")

in XML processing instructions and comments.  These raw characters are
allowed by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g.
PHP code in a processing instruction.  Patch by Neil Muller.
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Antoine Pitrou 2010-02-09 17:08:05 +00:00
parent 7b5aa463f9
commit 42fb6ab491
4 changed files with 25 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -213,6 +213,23 @@ def check_encoding(ET, encoding):
"""
ET.XML("<?xml version='1.0' encoding='%s'?><xml />" % encoding)
def processinginstruction():
"""
Test ProcessingInstruction directly
>>> from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
>>> ET.tostring(ET.ProcessingInstruction('test', 'instruction'))
'<?test instruction?>'
>>> ET.tostring(ET.PI('test', 'instruction'))
'<?test instruction?>'
Issue #2746
>>> ET.tostring(ET.PI('test', '<testing&>'))
'<?test <testing&>?>'
"""
#
# xinclude tests (samples from appendix C of the xinclude specification)