Workaround for nasty literal HTML inserting issue.

[librarian.git] / librarian / xmlutils.py

diff --git a/librarian/xmlutils.py b/librarian/xmlutils.py
index 340ee83..8890f4e 100644 (file)
--- a/librarian/xmlutils.py
+++ b/librarian/xmlutils.py
@@ -22,11 +22,15 @@ class Xmill(object):
         self.text_filters.append(fun)
 
     def filter_text(self, text):
+        # TODO: just work on the tree and let lxml handle escaping.
+        e = etree.Element("x")
+        e.text = text
+        # This whole mixing text with ML is so wrong.
+        output = etree.tostring(e, encoding=unicode)[3:-4]
         for flt in self.text_filters:
-            if text is None:
-                return None
-            text = flt(text)
-        return text
+            output = flt(output)
+        return output
+
 
     def generate(self, document):
         """Generate text from node using handlers defined in class."""