[sword-devel] libsword issue in handling XML entities such as &

[DM Smith]

See below.

> On Jul 31, 2025, at 8:53 AM, David Haslam <dfhdfh at protonmail.com <mailto:dfhdfh at protonmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> Hi DM,
> 
> Further to the feedback relating to the recent updates of the FreGeneve1669 module...
> 
> Has anyone yet created an issue in JIRA for the failure of libsword to output the & character wherever a module contains the XML entity & ?

I didn’t see any when I surveyed the Jira issues. I noticed that &c. is quite common in the KJV margin notes, and front matter.

> 
> Which other XML entities have the same issue?
> Likely candidates include < and >
> There may be others such as ' and "

Yes these are other possible problems.

> 
> Does the issue also pertain to their numerical equivalents, whether in decimal or hexadecimal form?  e.g. &x#0027;

We have a Jira issue to convert these to their unicode equivalent. I’m almost done with that code, having started yesterday.

> Any remedy should also take account that some such entities are also valid when the name is uppercase, e.g. &

The remedy is that xmllint will complain as it is not valid in xml. This should be a friend of all OSIS module makers.

Also, osis2mod will properly convert it to &AMP; And it will output a diagnostic for the conversion.

> 
> Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> David
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