Parser doesn't work correctly if greater than appears in attribute value

[scriby]

<div class="add-question first" data-bind="visible: questionSets()[0].questions().length > 0">

If I read that in with cheerio and get the html, the tag ends at the first greater than sign.

Chris

[balupton]

Yikes... any idea when this will be fixed? I'm evaluating using cheerio in DocPad for some of the plugins, but this seems scary.

[davidgildea]

HI Guys,

I have noticed the same problem myself. In particular where any HTML is stored inside and attribute. So credit tags in a title attribute get parsed instead of being escaped and ignored.
So in this example

title data become a 1 double quote and credit becomes a child element of a

Thanks
Dave.

Great work by the way, cheerio is fantastic.

[mlegenhausen]

+1
We are using Angular.js and have greater than signs in many params. This is really a bug.

[sindresorhus]

@matthewmueller ping. This is a huge problem for projects that uses two-way data-binding solutions like Angular/Knockout/etc which does inline logic.

[scriby]

Yes. We use knockout and it was a big issue.

I ended up having to write a pre-processor to update them to HTML entities. It wasn't crazy hard, but a little complicated. I would release the code if I could, but my company owns it.

[matthewmueller]

this is a known issue and it's being tracked here: https://github.com/fb55/node-htmlparser/issues/14