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[vgulaev]

https://gist.github.com/vgulaev/4753159

[bernardobarreto]

Based in what I know, that's is not an error, that's html escaping. It's a security measure against XSS. In the htmlmin, that is done by BeautifulSoup:

soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(html_code, "html5lib")

The html_code is your original code. After that, the soup variable will be your Return.html, encoded by BeautifulSoup.

If you take a look at BeautifulSoup code, you will find this:

CHARACTER_TO_XML_ENTITY = {
    "'": "apos",
    '"': "quot",
    "&": "amp",
    "<": "lt",
    ">": "gt",
}

In words: That means that any < will be turned into lt, > into gt and so on.

I hope that helps, if so, may I close this issue @vgulaev?

[vgulaev]

Yes you absolutely right.

soup = BeautifulSoup(htmlstr, "html5lib")
print(soup.prettify("utf-8"))

return the same code:((

[andrewsmedina]

I'm reopening this issue.

I know that beautifulsoup escapes the content of noscript but I think that it is a wrong behaviour.

[vgulaev]

I agree, that is wrong behaviour. If use BeautifulSoup without particular "html5lib" the result is fine.

[andrewsmedina]

But if we don't use html5lib, other things will break. It's time to create our own html5 parser.

[vgulaev]

when we start working?!:) coding

[andrewsmedina]

@vgulaev I created the https://github.com/cobrateam/html5py project :)

[foobacca]

There were similar problems with script and css tags which were fixed by #45 - so it looks like adding noscript to the EXCLUDE_TAGS would fix this issue.

[honi]

Would be nice to be able to configure EXCLUDE_TAGS from project's settings.py Adding noscript to that tuple correctly fixes the problem for me. Right now I'm doing:

from htmlmin import minify
minify.EXCLUDE_TAGS += ('noscript',)

[reinoudvansanten]

@honi Where would you put that code? Putting it in settings.py doesn't seem to have any effect here?

[honi]

Yes, I've put it in settings.py. Though that was for an old project, I'm not needing to do this anymore, but I don't have any noscript tags in this project, so...