92196 - View / Page Source doesn't show some characters

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 43267

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[carljohan]

When trying to look at the source for
http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/afw/#uucode
I noticed that a "-character was missing in the source
view that should have been there.

To repeat:
  Try http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/afw/#uucode
  View / Page Source

Expected result:
The source source should be the following,

<xmp>
Johan Forsberg <[e-mail]> 961220
begin 600 sword.gif
Y1TE&.#=A0  @ (       /___RP     0  @   "BHR/J<OM#Z.<M-KK  :\Z]@%H<AEF(A\X*&B
Y64O!DTH_FBS5,6O@:7_Q^!J?TI UJNAFJ)OMISRYID3H[K1DC)*@TH8G#8O'Y++":TX#CVHLM?UB
YKX7TNOV.MN*W\$1>O@!(EC6S9W@84A34=Z9G",38(\-5A6AY)^84.::YF2GH&2HZ2EIJ>BI6   [

end
</xmp>

                                                                ^
                                                                |-the "-char
       
Acctual result:

The source shown is,

<xmp>
Johan Forsberg <[e-mail]> 961220
begin 600 sword.gif
Y1TE&.#=A0  @ (       /___RP     0  @   "BHR/J<OM#Z.<M-KK  :\Z]@%H<AEF(A\X*&B
Y64O!DTH_FBS5,6O@:7_Q^!J?TI UJNAFJ)OMISRYID3H[K1DC)*@TH8G#8O'Y++:TX#CVHLM?UB
YKX7TNOV.MN*W\$1>O@!(EC6S9W@84A34=Z9G",38(\-5A6AY)^84.::YF2GH&2HZ2EIJ>BI6   [

end
</xmp>
                                                                 ^
                                                                 |- missing "


The "-character just isn't there. And since it is a uuencoded gif-file,
uudecode will report a "short file" error without the "-char.

I've tried this with the latest Mozilla that ships with Gnome-1.4 and the
latest nighly, both with the same result. 

The NGLayout renders the page correctly, but the source viewer just
drops the ". When I copy paste from the page source window, the " is still
missing.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The problem is your use of "<" in HTML. You should be escaping it as &lt;

The parser thinks that you're starting tags at:

<d92-jfo

and

<OM

As a result part of the text is treated as an attribute, making this a duplicate
of bug 57724, most likely.

 

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

reassign for real

Comment 3

[Andreas M. "Clarence" Schneider]

Attachment: screenshot of view-source in my tree

Comment 4

[Andreas M. "Clarence" Schneider]

The screenshot shows how it looks in my tree. Note that it includes a general
change of parser behavior I'll propose: '<' will close an unclosed start tag.
Also, some "generated content" is inserted (but marked as such). You'll be able
to suppress it with ".generated-content { display: none }".


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 57724 ***

Comment 5

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

Reopening 57724 dependencies for independent resolution.

Comment 6

[harishd]

--> Clarence

Comment 7

[Blake Kaplan (:mrbkap) (inactive)]

The problems with quotes in (and around) attributes is covered by bug 43267.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 43267 ***