No way to always force quoting unadorned ampersands

[jidanni]

Man page says

   --quote-ampersand Boolean (yes if unset)
          This option specifies if Tidy should
          output unadorned & characters as &, **in legacy doctypes only.**

That means there is no way to always force quoting. Tidy will always rip apart any quoting we do, unless we use a legacy doctype. "Thanks a lot."

See also #724.

Tidy 5.8.0

[jidanni]

Well all I know is

$ echo \&amp\;|tidy 2>/dev/null|grep \&
&

[AnrDaemon]

One of the many related questions. The problem is REALLY annoying.

Transforming HTML with <script> tags to pass to the xpath tools like xmlstarlet is a nontrivial task with this bug around.