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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"HTMLSerializer and HTML entities","articleBody":"``` python\n\u003e\u003e\u003e html5lib.serializer.serialize(html5lib.parse('\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e'))\n'\u003cp\u003e\\xa0'\n```\n\nat the moment the parsing and serialising a document causes entities to be converted into special characters, including things like #00 and there is no way to pass additional entities to xml.sax.saxutils.escape.\n\nI looked into subclassing the serialiser but the escaping happens in the middle of the serialize() method at:\n\nhttps://github.com/html5lib/html5lib-python/blob/master/html5lib/serializer/htmlserializer.py#L223 \n\nperhaps the class should define an entities dict to pass through the standard html5 entities and special characters or do the escaping via a class method that can be overridden?\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/danielknell","@type":"Person","name":"danielknell"},"datePublished":"2015-07-20T21:32:14.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":4},"url":"https://github.com/197/html5lib-python/issues/197"}