Re: [xml] final output filtering?

[Justin Fletcher <justin fletcher ntlworld com>]

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Peter Jacobi wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
>
> >   But precisely, I want libxml2 to be platform independant. The exact
> > same sequence of bytes should come out of it given the same sequence
> > of bytes in input.
>
> I think there is still confusion here.
>
> First, if you really want to enforce byte-by-byte identical output when
> streaming out the tree, the writer's fopen has to be changed to:
>
> #if defined(WIN32) || defined (__CYGWIN__)
>       fd = fopen(path, "wb");
> #else
>       fd = fopen(path, "w");
> #endif /* WIN32 */

I'm probably missing something here, but I would have thought that if you
really wanted to enforce byte-by-byte identical output when streaming to
the tree you should *always* be using :

        fd = fopen(path, "wb");

that is, the conditional case seems completely redundant to me. You want
the data to be treated as binary so I would have thought that you would
always want to open it for binary output. Thus avoiding the problem of
line endings on platforms you haven't yet encountered (broken C libraries
not withstanding).

The only issue that I've seen on the list so far (Igor's post) has been a
MS broken C library implementation when plain "w" is used. This is
something which Daniel (and general principles) wants to avoid anyhow, so
why not drop the text mode entirely for all platforms ?

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