Characters unnecessarily escaped by toString method of XML elements

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If I generate some Javascript in my Scala code like this:

<script type="text/javascript">
     foo("{bar}");
</script>

and the Javascript contains a double quote character (like in the example), it will appear as {noformat}"{noformat} when the XML is converted into a string by toString, and Firefox will reject this Javascript as having a syntax error.

I don't think it's simply a matter of needing to subsequently replace all of the quot entities with double quotes, either, because some of them might actually need to stay escaped (if they are inside attribute values).

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Imported From: https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-5645?orig=1
Reporter: Robin Green (greenrd)
Affected Versions: 2.8.1, 2.10.0-M2, 2.11.6

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Kevin Meredith (kevinmeredith) said (edited on Apr 16, 2015 6:47:21 PM UTC):
For newbies (like me):

scala> val xml = """<script type="text/javascript">
     |      foo("{bar}");
     | </script>"""
xml: String =
<script type="text/javascript">
     foo("{bar}");
</script>

scala> scala.xml.XML.loadString(xml)
res5: scala.xml.Elem =
<script type="text/javascript">
     foo(&quot;{bar}&quot;);
</script>

Is the expected solution here that quotes not be escaped for particular cases - such as within <script>?

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@som-snytt said:
All your xml issues are belong to scala-xml.

https://github.com/scala/scala-xml/blob/master/src/main/scala/scala/xml/Text.scala#L26

toString encodes, but text does not. Pick one. Or, I wonder if ScalaTags has special smarts for scripters, embedding in comments etc.

http://lihaoyi.github.io/scalatags/

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@som-snytt said:
scala/scala-xml#57