compatibility with xhtml "apos" entity and entity decoding speedup.

gluon/html.py

@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ regex_crlf = re.compile('\r|\n')
 
 join = ''.join
 
+entitydefs = dict(map(lambda (k,v): (k, unichr(v)), name2codepoint.iteritems()))
+entitydefs.setdefault('apos', u"'")
+
+
 __all__ = [
     'A',
     'B',
@@ -2404,7 +2408,7 @@ class web2pyHTMLParser(HTMLParser):
         else:
             self.parent.append(unichr(int(name)).encode('utf8'))
     def handle_entityref(self,name):
-        self.parent.append(unichr(name2codepoint[name]).encode('utf8'))
+        self.parent.append(entitydefs[name].encode('utf8'))
     def handle_endtag(self, tagname):
         # this deals with unbalanced tags
         if tagname==self.last:
@@ -2508,10 +2512,3 @@ class MARKMIN(XmlComponent):
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     import doctest
     doctest.testmod()
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