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Tidy does fancy entity replacements, but it shouldn't

From: Timo Hummel <timo.hummel@4fb.de>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:20:25 +0100
Message-ID: <63520597EA0F064392752B01D425188C023888@droop.headoffice.4fb.de>
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Hi everybody,

I'm using tidy to clean up partial HTML documents. However, tidy messes up some entities where it shouldn't. Example:

This is a testcase where I need to &auml; stay &auml; and ä should stay ä

I played around with the tidy options, but either &auml; is converted to ä, ä is converted to &auml; or both &auml; and ä are converted to &#228;. 

Is there an option to ignore entities? I just need to clean up broken elements (e.g. incorrect nesting).

With best regards,
Timo A. Hummel

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