#50106 [NEW]: htmlspecialchars is inconsistent with the specification

From: Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:37:43 +0000
Subject: #50106 [NEW]: htmlspecialchars is inconsistent with the specification
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Operating system: All
PHP version:      5.3.1RC3
PHP Bug Type:     Unknown/Other Function
Bug description:  htmlspecialchars is inconsistent with the specification

Description:
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When use HTML 5 widt <!DOCTYPE html>
we must encode only widt &#xx;
It is not supported entity like: &amp;&quot; etc

When mime type is application/xhtml+xml and <!DOCTYPE html>
browser halt xml parsing on &amp;&quot; etc

http://pl.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php
http://pl.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php

Reproduce code:
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<?=htmlspecialchars('&')?>

Expected result:
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'&' (ampersand) becomes '&#38;' 
'"' (double quote) becomes '&#34;'
''' (single quote) becomes '&#39;' 
'<' (less than) becomes '&#60;' 
'>' (greater than) becomes '&#62;'

Actual result:
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'&' (ampersand) becomes '&amp;' 
'"' (double quote) becomes '&quot;' 
''' (single quote) becomes '&#039;' 
'<' (less than) becomes '&lt;' 
'>' (greater than) becomes '&gt;'

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Not developer issue:                 http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50106&r=support
Expected behavior:                   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50106&r=notwrong
Not enough info:                     http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50106&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:                     http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50106&r=submittedtwice
register_globals:                    http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50106&r=globals
PHP 4 support discontinued:          http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50106&r=php4
Daylight Savings:                    http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50106&r=dst
IIS Stability:                       http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50106&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed:                     http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50106&r=gnused
Floating point limitations:          http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50106&r=float
No Zend Extensions:                  http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50106&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error:           http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50106&r=mysqlcfg

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