Bug #50106 [Com]: htmlspecialchars is inconsistent with the specification

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=50106&edit=1 ID: 50106 Comment by: technik at thomas-heuer dot eu Reported by: bugzilla33 at gmail dot com Summary: htmlspecialchars is inconsistent with the specification Status: Bogus Type: Bug Package: Strings related Operating System: All PHP Version: 5.3.1RC3 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Well, if this is not a bug, please turn into a feature-request. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-11-09 17:12:13] jani@php.net Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-11-06 21:37:42] bugzilla33 at gmail dot com Description: ------------ 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: --------------- <?=htmlspecialchars('&')?> Expected result: ---------------- '&' (ampersand) becomes '&#38;' '"' (double quote) becomes '&#34;' ''' (single quote) becomes '&#39;' '<' (less than) becomes '&#60;' '>' (greater than) becomes '&#62;' Actual result: -------------- '&' (ampersand) becomes '&amp;' '"' (double quote) becomes '&quot;' ''' (single quote) becomes '&#039;' '<' (less than) becomes '&lt;' '>' (greater than) becomes '&gt;' ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=50106&edit=1