584258 - XML tree rendering incorrectly substitutes entities

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Mike Smith]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100627 Firefox/3.6.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100627 Firefox/3.6.6

When viewing a kate syntax file in Firefox containing this line:
<DetectChar attribute="String" context="String" char="&quot;"/>

The entity near the end was substituted to a quote when rendered in the browser:
<DetectChar attribute="String" context="String" char="""/>

This is not valid XML; the original entity text should be shown instead since this is a rendering of the source code and not of the document it represents.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See above

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, Firefox 4.0.1 has been released, and it features significant improvements over previous releases. Can you please update to Firefox 4.0.1 or later, and retest your bug? Please also create a fresh profile (
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles), update your plugins (Flash, Java, Quicktime, Reader, etc) and update your graphics driver and Operating system to the latest versions available. 

If you still continue to see this issue, please comment. If you do not, please close this bug as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME

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