# HG changeset patch
# User gibus
# Date 1379145645 -7200
# Node ID c7aed0340a0009d16a8a12def1ab83508aefd3e1
# Parent  0bad3613f59db6c6541e43cf009be3745bca8293
For some reason, when exporting commented text with background colors, angle brackets for html spans are sometimes returned as entities by soup.

diff -r 0bad3613f59d -r c7aed0340a00 src/cm/utils/comment_positioning.py
--- a/src/cm/utils/comment_positioning.py	Wed Sep 11 23:13:01 2013 +0200
+++ b/src/cm/utils/comment_positioning.py	Sat Sep 14 10:00:45 2013 +0200
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 from cm.converters.pandoc_converters import pandoc_convert
 import logging
 from cm.utils.spannifier import get_the_soup
+import re
 
 import html5lib
 from html5lib import treebuilders
@@ -180,4 +181,10 @@
 
         content.replaceWith(spans)
 
-    return unicode(html)
+    output = unicode(html)
+    # Soup has introduced HTML entities, which should be expanded
+    output =re.sub(r""", '"', output)
+    output =re.sub(r"&", '&', output)
+    output =re.sub(r">", '>', output)
+    output =re.sub(r"&lt;", '<', output)
+    return unicode(output)