Entities ignored in XML.loadString

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val xmlLs = scala.xml.XML.loadString( "<a>ceci &amp; un msg</a>" )

Gives me an element with only one child of type scala.xml.Text.

Where as

val xmlCode = <a>ceci &amp; un msg</a>

Gives me an element with 3 children. The second is an scala.xml.EntityRef :

xmlCode.child(1).getClass

Then of course i have

xmlLs != xmlCode

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Imported From: https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-1654?orig=1
Reporter: Bruno Bieth (mustaghattack)

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@acruise said:
The SAX parser is handing us the "&" in a separate characters call, but it doesn't give any hint that it was previously an entity. Of course, in the case of amp,lt,gt (and quot in attributes) they couldn't have been literals, but there are plenty of situations in which a stream contains characters encoded as entities that could just as well have been literals, and the only way we'd be able to tell is that we'd receive them in a separate characters call. My inclination is to leave this one alone (or even change the XML literal parser to act like SAX!) unless someone can advance a compelling argument for change.

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@SethTisue said:
The scala-xml library is now community-maintained. Issues with it are now tracked at https://github.com/scala/scala-xml/issues instead of here in the Scala JIRA.

Interested community members: if you consider this issue significant, feel free to open a new issue for it on GitHub, with links in both directions.