Re: [Boost-users] [Property Tree] special character in XML tag

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Property Tree] special character in XML tag
From: Michael Powell (mwpowellhtx_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-02-19 06:34:20

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 3:30 AM, Gábor Márton <martongabesz_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 'CudbAppServiceId=1' is not an attribute, this should be the tag
> itself. In fact, the XML would be correct if the tag would not contain
> the special equality sign.
>

Kind of my point: I might challenge whether CubdAppServiceId1 wasn't
intended to be the tag. The '=' just confuses things, except possibly as an
artifact of the INFO specification, which I am ignorant of.

> 'CudbAppServiceId=1' is a node in the property tree, which don't have
> value, but has 3 children.
> So a well formed XML would look like this, I suppose:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <CudbAppServiceId&#61;1>
> <userLabel/>
> <sqlAppSrvPlSchema>identities-pl.sql</sqlAppSrvPlSchema>
> <CudbAppServiceId>CudbAppServiceId&#61;1</CudbAppServiceId>
> </CudbAppServiceId&#61;1>
>
> The bug is reported here:
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8095
>
> BR,
> Gabor
>
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Michael Powell <mwpowellhtx_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
> > Will assume that he's filed a bug. Not sure what the intended goal is
> since
> > I'm not familiar with INFO per se. Are we saying that CdbAppServiceId=1
> is
> > an attribute?
> >
> > Or is intended as a tab with "1" value? What sort of general bug is this?
> > Does it impact pure Xml usage with Xml paths, parents, children,
> elements,
> > attributes, values, etc?
> >
> > Thank you...
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Sebastian Redl
> > <sebastian.redl_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 02/18/2013 02:10 PM, Gábor Márton wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I have the following property tree, dumped in INFO format:
> >>>
> >>> CudbAppServiceId=1
> >>> {
> >>>      userLabel ""
> >>>      sqlAppSrvPlSchema identities-pl.sql
> >>>      CudbAppServiceId CudbAppServiceId=1
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> When I dump it in XML format, I got the following:
> >>>
> >>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> >>> <CudbAppServiceId=1>
> >>> <userLabel/>
> >>> <sqlAppSrvPlSchema>identities-pl.sql</sqlAppSrvPlSchema>
> >>> <CudbAppServiceId>CudbAppServiceId=1</CudbAppServiceId>
> >>> </CudbAppServiceId=1>
> >>>
> >>> This is not a valid XML, because we have a tag "CudbAppServiceId=1".
> >>> Of course, any other xml parser like xmllint will fail to parse it,
> >>> because of the equality sign in the tag.
> >>>
> >>> Is there any solution to this problem? Like somehow emitting &#61;
> >>> instead of the raw '=' inside the tag and in the text?
> >>>
> >> Please file a bug. It might still be a few weeks before I get to work on
> >> PropertyTree properly again, and this mail will get lost otherwise.
> >>
> >> Sebastian
> >>
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