[lxml-dev] Preventing XPath injection

Geoffrey Sneddon foolistbar at googlemail.com
Sun Sep 7 20:24:30 CEST 2008


On 7 Sep 2008, at 19:05, Marius Gedminas wrote:

> XPath 1.0 is silent on the matter.  I suppose you could always
> concatenate strings, e.g. concat("Look, it's a ", '"quoted  
> string"!')...

I just read interpreted the XML EBNF as meaning there was no escaping,  
and removed leading/trailing quote char for it to be logical. Which  
seems to be how things work.


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