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Double escaping attribute values #143

@jtran

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@jtran

The values of attributes are getting double escaped. As far as I can tell, the problem was introduced in f0057e2. In particular, the double-quote character and non-breaking spaces won't ever make it through sanitizing.

In code, I expect the following test to pass.

func TestQuotesSanitization(t *testing.T) {
	tests := []test{
		{
			in:       `<p title="&quot;"></p>`,
			expected: `<p title="&quot;"></p>`,
		},
		{
			in:       `<p title="&nbsp;"></p>`,
			expected: `<p title="&nbsp;"></p>`,
		},
	}

	p := UGCPolicy()
	p.AllowAttrs("title").OnElements("p")

	// These tests are run concurrently to enable the race detector to pick up
	// potential issues
	wg := sync.WaitGroup{}
	wg.Add(len(tests))
	for ii, tt := range tests {
		go func(ii int, tt test) {
			out := p.Sanitize(tt.in)
			if out != tt.expected {
				t.Errorf(
					"test %d failed;\ninput   : %s\noutput  : %s\nexpected: %s",
					ii,
					tt.in,
					out,
					tt.expected,
				)
			}
			wg.Done()
		}(ii, tt)
	}
	wg.Wait()
}

However, I get this output.

=== RUN   TestQuotesSanitization
    sanitize_test.go:3713: test 1 failed;
        input   : <p title="&nbsp;"></p>
        output  : <p title="&amp;nbsp;"></p>
        expected: <p title="&nbsp;"></p>
    sanitize_test.go:3713: test 0 failed;
        input   : <p title="&quot;"></p>
        output  : <p title="&amp;quot;"></p>
        expected: <p title="&quot;"></p>

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