[Issue 907] libxml broken?

I haven't had a chance to look into this for a few days but last night I
started poking arround the libsvn_ra_dav code to figure out where the
escaped & were comming from.

It looks like they are comming from the attribute list provided at the
begining of element parsing through neon in the xml parsing
layer. But, it also looks like neon is just passing the attribute lists
straight from the xml parsing library (in my case libxml).

Reconfiguring/recompiling with configure ... --with-expat solved the
problem with the svn update problem.

Can someone confirm the workarround?

Does anyone disagree that general (i.e. &, ", etc) entities
found in attributes should be dereferenced before passing them to the
application layer?

Clark

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