[Html-widget] strange error with HTMLEscape filter when installing latest from CPAN

[Bernhard Graf]

Carl Franks wrote:

> Yeah, the latest version of HTML::Element has fixed the unicode
> encoding problem, but it's introduced a questionable feature, in that
> it won't encode any '&' which looks like it's already part of a
> HTML-encoded intity.
> This means the double-encoding test fails.
>
> I've been communicating with the author, he felt the feature was
> needed, but I've pointed out that the previous behaviour of
> HTML::Element was that it encoded everything except "~literal"
> pseudo-elements, so the feature is unnecessary. I've not had a
> response to that in the past couple days, but I'm hopeful that he'll
> relent!

I find this feature *very* usefull!

Otherwise you have no chance to indent <options> in a <select> list:

color
  red
  green
  blue
taste
  sweet
  bitter

(done with leading &nbsp;)
-- 
Bernhard Graf