From fdfe3d2413af56832044a423df203fb39c6ba6a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Ritt <stefan.ritt@psi.ch>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 13:32:24 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed endless loop in mxml_decode if a comment contained an
 entity like &XYZ;

---
 mxml.c | 11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mxml.c b/mxml.c
index 509bdee..81d7590 100755
--- a/mxml.c
+++ b/mxml.c
@@ -286,22 +286,25 @@ void mxml_decode(char *str)
          *(p++) = '<';
          strcpy(p, p+3);
       }
-      if (strncmp(p, "&gt;", 4) == 0) {
+      else if (strncmp(p, "&gt;", 4) == 0) {
          *(p++) = '>';
          strcpy(p, p+3);
       }
-      if (strncmp(p, "&amp;", 5) == 0) {
+      else if (strncmp(p, "&amp;", 5) == 0) {
          *(p++) = '&';
          strcpy(p, p+4);
       }
-      if (strncmp(p, "&quot;", 6) == 0) {
+      else if (strncmp(p, "&quot;", 6) == 0) {
          *(p++) = '\"';
          strcpy(p, p+5);
       }
-      if (strncmp(p, "&apos;", 6) == 0) {
+      else if (strncmp(p, "&apos;", 6) == 0) {
          *(p++) = '\'';
          strcpy(p, p+5);
       }
+      else {
+         p++; // skip unknown entity
+      }
    }
 /*   if (str[0] == '\"' && str[strlen(str)-1] == '\"') {
       strcpy(str, str+1);